vivify

tr.v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies.

1. To give or bring life to; animate: vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands.
2. To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven: A smile may vivify a face.

[Middle English vivifien, from Old French vivifier, from Late Latin vīvificāre : Latin vīvus, alive + Latin -ficāre, -fy.]

vivification viv'i·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n.
vivifier viv'i·fi'er n.

(VIV-i-FY)

verb tr.
1. To endow with life; animate.
2. To impart vitality or liveliness.

Etymology
From Latin vivus (alive) via Late Latin vivificare.

Usage
"Yet how could artists vivify culture with `sympathies and admirations' if they felt out of step with their place and time." — Jackson Lears, The Golden Age, The New Republic (Washington), Aug 21, 2000.

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verb

To make alive: animate, quicken, vitalize. See live/die.

Conversion of lifeless into living protein matter by assimilation.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - levendegøre

Nederlands (Dutch)
tot leven brengen, bezielen, stimuleren

Français (French)
v. tr. - vivifier

Deutsch (German)
v. - beleben

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - αναζωογονώ, ζωογονώ

Italiano (Italian)
vivificare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - vivificar

Русский (Russian)
оживлять, воскреснуть

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - vivificar, avivar, animar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - levandegöra

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
给与生气, 使生动, 使复生

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 給與生氣, 使生動, 使複生

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - ~에 생기를 주다, 활기를 띠게 하다, 격려하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 生命を与える, 生きいきさせる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) انعش, احيا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮החייה, הפיח חיים ב-‬

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