MEANING
To give renewed vitality or useful activity to something.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- revitalize a district
- revitalize a project
On the page
The workshops revitalized the neglected reading room.
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Word forms
- Base
- revitalize
- Past tense
- revitalized
- Past participle
- revitalized
- Present participle
- revitalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- revitalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are revitalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has revitalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been revitalizing
- Past
- revitalized
- Past continuous
- was/were revitalizing
- Past perfect
- had revitalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been revitalizing
- Future
- will revitalize
- Future continuous
- will be revitalizing
- Future perfect
- will have revitalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been revitalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: revitalize; revitalizes; revitalized; revitalized; revitalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: revitalizes.
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