"vivify" in the verb sense
1. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"
2. vivify
make more striking or animated
"his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"
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