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How to pronounce vivify in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify
Type of stimulate, arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up
Verb group revive, come to, resuscitate
Derivation vivification
Type Words
Type of modify, alter, change
Derivation vivification


his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story.

Examples of vivify

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Love, jealousy, rivalry and a flurry of martial arts vivify this ripping yarn.
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They arrived crisp and hot, but without enough salt to vivify the flavors.
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These dramatizations were included in order to vivify annual celebrations.
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The film, though, has an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
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You don't decide to try to vivify a Bartok string quartet on a whim.
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Moreover, from time to time, the speaker told funny stories and skillfully used jokes to vivify his talk.
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The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
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She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message.
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Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers'amorous romp in the woods.
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More examples
  • Animate: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
  • Make more striking or animated; "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"
  • (vivification) animation: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
  • (vivification) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
  • Vivification is an operation on a description logic knowledge base to improve performance of a semantic reasoner. Vivification replaces a disjunction of concepts by the least common subsumer of the concepts .
  • To bring to life; To impart vitality