revivify
verb
re·viv·i·fy
rē-ˈvi-və-ˌfī 
revivified; revivifying; revivifies
: to give new life to : revive
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Worn-out soil may be revivified by careful organic tending. A terrific new recruit can revivify a discouraged football team, and an imaginative and energetic new principal can revivify a failing high school. After World War II, one European country after another was slowly revivified, their economies and cultural life gradually coming back to life. Notice that revivify looks like some other words with very similar meanings, such as revive, revitalize, and reinvigorate.
Examples of revivify in a Sentence
looking for ways to revivify the city's economy
a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company
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Lily is not a ghost but a dead body, temporarily revivified and subject to decay.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
What would invigorate and revivify you?
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 30 June 2022
For example, his first book, American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly (2000), argues for a limited revival of antitrust law—rather than labor organizing or changes in federal farm policy more generally—to revivify Midwestern farming.
—Phil Christman, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
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Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
What would invigorate and revivify you?
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 30 June 2022
For example, his first book, American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly (2000), argues for a limited revival of antitrust law—rather than labor organizing or changes in federal farm policy more generally—to revivify Midwestern farming.
—Phil Christman, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
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“Revivify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revivify. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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