Vivify

Definition: Vivify

Vivify

Verb

1. Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me".

Date "vivify" was first used: 1392. (references)

Note: Vivify \Viv"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Vivified; present participle verb or noun Vivifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Vivify

Synonyms: animate (v), quicken (v), reanimate (v), recreate (v), revive (v), revivify (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Life	Give birth to. (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate. (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.
Strength	Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vivify

English words defined with "vivify": Vivificate, Vivificative, Vivified, Vivifying. (references)

Etymologies containing "vivify": Vivificate. (references)

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	Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Vivify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Vivify" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Language		Translations for "vivify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i jap jetë (animate, vitalize), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, warm up). (various references)

Arabic		‏فعم بالحيوية, ‏نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, waken). (various references)

Bulgarian		вливам живот в, оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, jazz, liven, quicken, relive, smarten up, touch up, vitalize, warm, warm up, zip), правя по-жив. (various references)

Chinese		赋予�"��" (Vivified, Vivifying). (various references)

Czech		oživovat, oživit (animate, brighten up, enliven, inspirit, jazz, liven, quicken, reanimate, recapture, regenerate, rejuvenate, retrieve, revive, spirit, vitalize). (various references)

French		vivifier (vitalize). (various references)

German		beleben (animate, brighten, brighten up, bring to life, buoy up, enliven, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, revive, stimulate, to animate, to enliven, to freshen, to inspirit, to revive, to staminate, variegate, vitalize), anregen (abet, agitate, animate, encourage, excite, incite, innervate, inspire, instigate, motivate, prompt, propose, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir up, suggest, to animate, to excite, to innervate, to inspire, to motivate, to stimulate, whet). (various references)

Greek		ζωογονώ (animate, quicken, vitalize). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פיח רוח חיים (enliven, ginger, invigorate, regenerate, vitalize). (various references)

Hungarian		felelevenít (bring back, brush up, reproduce, to brush up, to evoke, to recall, to resuscitate, to revive), életre kelt (to rally, to resuscitate, to vivify), élénkít (invigorate, to animate, to enliven, to invigorate, to jazz up, to quicken, to vivify, vitalize). (various references)

Italian		vivificare, dare vita a, animare (animate, become animated, excite, give life to, inspirit, jazz, liven, pep up, wake, warm). (various references)

Manx		cur bree ayn (animate, energize, exhilarate, invigorate, pep up). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivifyvay

Portuguese		vivificar (vitalize), estimular (abet, accelerate, actuate, arouse, awake, encourage, energy, excite, exhortation, fillister, flatterer, flush, galvanize, impel, incite, inspire, inspissate, irritate, jog, kindle, nurture, press agent, promote, put forward, quicken, rouse, stimulate, stir up, urge, waken, whet), dar vida a (liven up, livener, smarten), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, be inspired, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, Chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensue, exhilarated, flush, ginger, grandmotherly, hearten, heat, incite, inspirit, jazz, jolly, Kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propellant, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, warm). (various references)

Romanian		se însufleţi (liven, quicken). (various references)

Russian		оживлять (animate, brighten, enliven, exhilarate, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, reanimate, resuscitate, revitalize, souped, souping, vitalize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oživljavati (revivify, vitalize), oživeti (animate, come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, recuperate, resuscitate, revitalize, revive), dati živost. (various references)

Spanish		vivificar (vitalize). (various references)

Turkish		neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, spirit up), hayat vermek (bring to life, inspirit, refresh, regenerate, vitalize), güçlendirmek (beef up, brace, cement, enforce, enrich, exalt, make strong, reinforce, soup up, steel, strengthen, support to, tone up), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, wake, waken). (various references)

Ukranian		оживляти (animate, resuscitate, revitalize, vitalize), надавати яскравості, животворити. (various references)

Welsh		bywioca/u (animate, quicken), bywhau (animate, quicken). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vivus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	vivificare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vivify": vivifying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "vivify": revivify. (additional references)
	Words containing "vivify": revivifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vivify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vegify, Vevey, vinify, Vivary, vivfy, vivi, vivifier, vivity, vivy, Vxvmi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "vivify" (pronounced 'Viv"i*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-i-v-v-y"
	-3 letters: ivy.
	-4 letters: if.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-i-v-v-y"
	+2 letters: revivify.
	+3 letters: vivifying.
	+5 letters: revivifying.
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