Regenerate
[rɪ'dʒenəreɪt] or [rɪ'dʒɛnəret]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Nellie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Checked by Dick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate
ANT:Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate
Checked by Juliana
Definition
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).
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- We have seen pictures of martyrs enough, and saints enough, to regenerate the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Together we may do still more to regenerate our dying planet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She believed him regenerate--a new Samuel--called of God from his birth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The enormous vitality that is regenerating other interests can be brought into the service of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Would not a life devoted to the task of regenerating your race be well spent? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- With the storage battery, it may be regenerated at will by simply subjecting it to an electric current from a dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On September 4th, France declared herself a republic again, and thus regenerated, prepared to fight for existence against triumphant Prussianism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Suzy