Vitalize
['vaɪt(ə)laɪz]
Definition
(verb.) make more lively or vigorous; 'The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man'.
(verb.) give life to; 'The eggs are vitalized'.
Editor: Peter--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
Checker: Mimi
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Vivify, animate, quicken, make alive, give life to.
Typist: Shelley
Examples
- Did the vitalizing air reach the people of that distant planet in time to save them? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- His theoretical grounds for ignoring the question in politics are very interesting just because they are vitalized by this practical difficulty which he faced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This subject matter meant so much that it vitalized the defining and systematizing brought to bear upon it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Information is vitalized by its function; by the place it occupies in direction of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The flaming sun which warms and vitalizes the world, is found more than ninety millions of miles away. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To-day the telegraph is the great nerve system of the nation’s body, and it ramifies and vitalizes every part with sensitive force. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Moll