Word Meanings - INVIGORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury. Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVIGORATE)

• Enliven
• Wake
• cheer
• vivify
• quicken
• invigorate
• exhilarate
• rouse
• inspirit
• excite
• animate
• Strengthen
• Confirm
• establish
• fix
• corroborate
• secure
• fortify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVIGORATE)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to INVIGORATE)

• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• CORROBORATE
  p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by