MEANING
To restore energy or vitality to something.
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Words that belong together
- revivify a tradition
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The performance revivified the old ritual.
The spring seemed to revivify the exhausted garden.
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Word forms
- Base
- revivify
- Past tense
- revivified
- Past participle
- revivified
- Present participle
- revivifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- revivify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are revivifying
- Present perfect
- have/has revivified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been revivifying
- Past
- revivified
- Past continuous
- was/were revivifying
- Past perfect
- had revivified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been revivifying
- Future
- will revivify
- Future continuous
- will be revivifying
- Future perfect
- will have revivified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been revivifying
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: revivify; revivifies; revivified; revivified; revivifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: revivifies.
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