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单词 vivify
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Definition of vivify in English:

vivify

verbvivified, vivifies, vivifying ˈvɪvɪfʌɪˈvɪvəˌfaɪ
[with object]
  • Make more lively or interesting; enliven.

    outings vivify learning for children
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But perhaps her hesitation was also due in part to another compelling belief, reflected in the venerable tradition of oral storytelling, which assumes repetition to be vivifying.
    • It vivifies the manufactured world to make it one with nature.
    • Her cowboy jigs and country reels literally vivify the show.
    • Those few seconds vivify the language, and crystallize the urgency not to let it die.
    • So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
    • What vivifies these elements, however, is the central operation of a pervasive and fundamental irony.
    • The study of literature, says Hines, vivifies material culture, while archaeology enriches critical reading.
    • Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
    • Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe.
    • Both deeper and wider than a biography, the book documents and vivifies events that still affect us today.
    • To vivify the world is one responsibility of a poet.
    • The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
    • The ability to assume different characters and voices helps a story-teller vivify his tale.
    • The academy would choose, on the other hand, to flatten human experience; Pinker may be a materialist but one that sees this universality; therefore, he vivifies - encourages our sense of three-dimensionality.
    • Historical memory, and especially the loveliest component of it, which has been preserved in works of art, is something absolutely vivifying.
    • They grasp biography as one of the commercially viable means of publication; they use it to vivify their monographs and illustrate their general works.
    • The stark red color vivifies the flashback scenes.
    • Augmenting and vivifying its collections is part of its raison d' être and a duty.
    • It is a wonderful way to explore ideas, to vivify notions, to think.
    • As much as these paintings enliven one another as a group, a generous eccentricity serves to vivify the authority and merit of each painting as an independent work.
    Synonyms
    enliven, vitalize, give life to, give new life to, breathe life into, breathe new life into, energize, invigorate, revive, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden

Derivatives

  • vivification

  • noun vɪvɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌvɪvəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
    • It is particularly in the context of this duality that vivification and animation find a correspondence to the perception of space or time and attention.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘The true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivifications to facts, to science, and to common lives’
      • They are vivifications of the meaning of interaction between people, as an engagement with contemporary society.
      • This Spirit is a Spirit of vivification to them for He is the Spirit of life, and makes them live unto righteousness, ‘And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.’
      • The two resurrections which take place at the Lord's presence are both out-resurrections and both vivifications.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French vivifier, from late Latin vivificare, from Latin vivus 'living', from vivere 'to live'.

 
 

Definition of vivify in US English:

vivify

verbˈvɪvəˌfaɪˈvivəˌfī
[with object]
  • Enliven or animate.

    outings vivify learning for children
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
    • The stark red color vivifies the flashback scenes.
    • But perhaps her hesitation was also due in part to another compelling belief, reflected in the venerable tradition of oral storytelling, which assumes repetition to be vivifying.
    • So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
    • The ability to assume different characters and voices helps a story-teller vivify his tale.
    • It is a wonderful way to explore ideas, to vivify notions, to think.
    • Her cowboy jigs and country reels literally vivify the show.
    • The study of literature, says Hines, vivifies material culture, while archaeology enriches critical reading.
    • What vivifies these elements, however, is the central operation of a pervasive and fundamental irony.
    • Historical memory, and especially the loveliest component of it, which has been preserved in works of art, is something absolutely vivifying.
    • Both deeper and wider than a biography, the book documents and vivifies events that still affect us today.
    • Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe.
    • They grasp biography as one of the commercially viable means of publication; they use it to vivify their monographs and illustrate their general works.
    • The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
    • Augmenting and vivifying its collections is part of its raison d' être and a duty.
    • As much as these paintings enliven one another as a group, a generous eccentricity serves to vivify the authority and merit of each painting as an independent work.
    • It vivifies the manufactured world to make it one with nature.
    • To vivify the world is one responsibility of a poet.
    • The academy would choose, on the other hand, to flatten human experience; Pinker may be a materialist but one that sees this universality; therefore, he vivifies - encourages our sense of three-dimensionality.
    • Those few seconds vivify the language, and crystallize the urgency not to let it die.
    Synonyms
    enliven, vitalize, give life to, give new life to, breathe life into, breathe new life into, energize, invigorate, revive, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden

Origin

Late Middle English: from French vivifier, from late Latin vivificare, from Latin vivus ‘living’, from vivere ‘to live’.

 
 
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