as in to stimulate
to give life, vigor, or spirit to
a teacher who knows how to energize history lessons with little-known but interesting facts about long-ago people
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Recent Examples of energize
Super Lemon Haze As the name suggests, Super Lemon Haze brings a refreshing, zesty lemon flavor along with its energizing effects.
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Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
The heart of the show was Berg’s performance as the redoubtable Molly, a meddler and a chatterbox but also the show’s moral heroine, a problem solver energized by the troubles of others.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Luxuriate in the energizing folk/pop/rock of the whisper-to-belter Melissa Etheridge and the Atlanta duo Indigo Girls on Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025
The best visions embrace the constructive tension between current reality and future possibility, creating space that energizes rather than demoralizes.
—Aurelien Mangano, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
The heart of the show was Berg’s performance as the redoubtable Molly, a meddler and a chatterbox but also the show’s moral heroine, a problem solver energized by the troubles of others.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Luxuriate in the energizing folk/pop/rock of the whisper-to-belter Melissa Etheridge and the Atlanta duo Indigo Girls on Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025
The best visions embrace the constructive tension between current reality and future possibility, creating space that energizes rather than demoralizes.
—Aurelien Mangano, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for energize
stimulate
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In fact, scientists say today's children are exposed to far fewer antigens—the components that stimulate immune responses—than their grandparents were, despite receiving more immunizations overall.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The Cancer new moon stimulates your visionary capacities.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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“Energize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/energize. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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