revivifying

verb

present participle of revivify
1
as in restoring
to bring back to a former condition or vigor a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company

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2
as in reviving
to bring back to life, practice, or activity the new director hopes to revivify interest in the sports programs offered at the youth center

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revivifying
  1. restoring
  2. reviving
  3. refreshing
  4. resurrecting
  5. recreating
  6. renewing
Verb
  • The utility’s outage listings Friday afternoon showed crews patrolling electrical lines in many affected communities, a step toward restoring power once conditions were considered safe.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Kast and Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz plan to discuss trade and border security and sign mining and energy agreements, but restoring full diplomatic relations is not on the agenda.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of restoring
Verb
  • Westlock Village emerged from development purgatory to apply for building permits in late September, reviving a 4-year-old plan to bring 256 homes to the corner of State Street and Ulmer Lane in West Boise.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Normalizing an extreme idea But the idea of reviving public executions has, in fact, been openly discussed in more mainstream right-wing circles, beyond the CREC.
    — Odette Yousef, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reviving
Verb
  • Coca-Cola is refreshing its beverage lineup with a series of new fruit flavors.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • As advertising platforms make decisions in real time, organizations refreshing creative on quarterly schedules will spend more of their budget reacting to changes the platform has already made instead of keeping pace with them.
    — Matt Jayson, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of refreshing
Verb
  • After resurrecting iconic consoles like the 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision, Atari is relaunching one of the brand’s personal computers that originally debuted 43 years ago.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Madonna has spent her career borrowing, referencing, resurrecting and reinventing, but never at the expense of distinctly looking and feeling like herself.
    — Sadie Kargman, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of resurrecting
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  • One critical component of getting the time and place to feel right was recreating the ’70s, rather than leaning on a corny pastiche or tired visual clichés.
    — William Earl, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Yamaha was doing it in 1993 with the VL1, mathematically recreating the airflow, reeds, and resonances of saxophones and other acoustic instruments, while Line 6, among others, later applied the same broad idea to guitar amps.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of recreating
Verb
  • AutoGov takes care of regular tasks like renewing licenses, paying bills, and booking routine health appointments.
    — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Cable and telco giant Rogers Communications recently chose against renewing the broadcast of Saturday night National Hockey League games on the CBC, a Hockey Night in Canada tradition for the public broadcaster begun in 1952.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of renewing
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“Revivifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revivifying. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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