Word Meanings - VIVIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIVIFY)

• Enliven
• Wake
• cheer
• vivify
• quicken
• invigorate
• exhilarate
• rouse
• inspirit
• excite
• animate
• Heighten
• Exalt
• increase
• enhance
• intensify
• color
• aggravate
• raise
• exaggerate
• lift up
• amplify
• Impregnate
• Fill
• insert
• imbue
• mix
• combine
• saturate
• steep
• fecundate
• teach
• Quicken
• Accelerate
• revive
• reinvigorate
• resuscitate
• stimulate
• hurry
• hasten
• urge
• promote
• expedite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VIVIFY)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to VIVIFY)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• 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:
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• REVIVE
  To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.