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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of revivify.

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Examples

  • The couple's vacation in Rome perhaps momentarily revivifies the marriage, but Richard's bad faith (in a noxious alliance with his genuine love for his wife) is sufficient to guarantee that this reprieve won't last long.

    Updike, John 2010

  • As with all truly monumental historic figures, each generation revivifies Gandhi's image to suit their times.

    It's a material world 2009

  • Order works because chaos breaks in; chaos works because it disrupts and revivifies order.

    Last day before Christmas great escape. Imogen 2008

  • Order works because chaos breaks in; chaos works because it disrupts and revivifies order.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Imogen 2008

  • Mailer's Dickensian portraiture revivifies even the half-remembered.

    How to Cover an Election Rich, Frank 2008

  • But this strategy of counter-humiliation not only fails to restore one's honor, by dishonoring the other, one creates an enduring enemy, or revivifies the vengeance of those adversaries who already existed.

    Stephen Ducat: Confronting and Ending the Politics of Humiliation: Part 1, From the Warsaw Ghetto to Guantanamo Bay 2008

  • Indeed, without pausing to consider relations of so special a nature, do we not find every day that adultery, when it is based upon genuine love, does not upset the family sentiment, the duties of kinship, but rather revivifies them.

    The Captive 2003

  • But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1969

  • But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1941

  • But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1941

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