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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
revivify .
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Examples
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The couple's vacation in Rome perhaps momentarily revivifies the marriage, but Richard's bad faith (in a noxious alliance with his genuine love for his wife) is sufficient to guarantee that this reprieve won't last long.
Updike, John 2010
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As with all truly monumental historic figures, each generation revivifies Gandhi's image to suit their times.
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Order works because chaos breaks in; chaos works because it disrupts and revivifies order.
Last day before Christmas great escape. Imogen 2008
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Order works because chaos breaks in; chaos works because it disrupts and revivifies order.
Archive 2008-12-01 Imogen 2008
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Mailer's Dickensian portraiture revivifies even the half-remembered.
How to Cover an Election Rich, Frank 2008
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But this strategy of counter-humiliation not only fails to restore one's honor, by dishonoring the other, one creates an enduring enemy, or revivifies the vengeance of those adversaries who already existed.
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Indeed, without pausing to consider relations of so special a nature, do we not find every day that adultery, when it is based upon genuine love, does not upset the family sentiment, the duties of kinship, but rather revivifies them.
The Captive 2003
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But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '
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But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '
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But the conception of love is still in the city, and it is a wonderful conception; it refreshes and revivifies — it is clean water and strong wind. '
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