Regenerate

[rɪ'dʒenəreɪt] or [rɪ'dʒɛnəret]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) restore strength; 'This food revitalized the patient'.

(verb.) undergo regeneration.

(verb.) form or produce anew; 'regenerate hatred'.

(verb.) be formed or shaped anew.

(verb.) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue; 'The snake regenerated its tail'.

(verb.) return to life; get or give new life or energy; 'The week at the spa restored me'.

(verb.) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit.

(verb.) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; 'We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years'; 'They renewed their membership'.

(adj.) reformed spiritually or morally; 'a regenerate sinner'; 'regenerate by redemption from error or decay' .

整理:内莉--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Reproduced.

(a.) Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.

(v. t.) To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to.

(v. t.) To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.

(v. t.) Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.

錄入:默多克

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Reproduce, revive, renovate, generate anew.[2]. (Theol.) Convert, produce a change of heart in.

a. [1]. Reproduced.[2]. Converted, regenerated, renewed in spirit, born again.

迪克整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate

ANT:Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate

整理:朱莉安娜

解釋/意思:

v.t. to produce anew: (theol.) to renew the heart and turn it to the love of God.—adj. regenerated renewed: changed from a natural to a spiritual state.—ns. Regen′erācy Regen′erāteness state of being regenerate.—n. Regenerā′tion act of regenerating: state of being regenerated: (theol.) new birth the change from a carnal to a Christian life: the renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.—adj. Regen′erātive pertaining to regeneration: renewal.—adv. Regen′erātively.—n. Regen′erātor a chamber filled with a checker-work of fire-bricks in which the waste heat is by reversal of the draught alternately stored up and given out to the gas and air entering the furnace.—adj. Regen′erātory.—n. Regen′esis the state of being renewed.—Baptismal regeneration (see Baptise).

校對:塔玛拉