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Invigorate

Invigorate \In*vig"or*ate\ ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invigorated ([i^]n*v[i^]g"[~e]r*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Invigorating.] [Pref. in- in + vigor.] To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity.
--Atterbury.

Syn: To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invigorate

1640s, from in- (2) + vigor + -ate (2). Earlier verb was envigor (1610s). Related: Invigorated; invigorating.

Wiktionary
invigorate

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to. 2 (context transitive English) To heighten or intensify. 3 (context transitive English) To give life or energy to. 4 (context transitive English) To make lively. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to. 2 (context transitive English) To heighten or intensify. 3 (context transitive English) To give life or energy to. 4 (context transitive English) To make lively.

WordNet
invigorate
  1. v. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, enliven, exalt]

  2. give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken]

  3. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, animate] [ant: deaden]

  4. impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating" [syn: reinvigorate]

Usage examples of "invigorate".

The sun had just come up, and everything was hazy, the mist lifting layer by layer, the air cold and invigorating.

Elated with the success which had so far attended our enterprise, and invigorated by the refreshing atmosphere we now inhaled, Toby and I in high spirits were making our way rapidly along the ridge, when suddenly from the valleys below which lay on either side of us we heard the distant shouts of the natives, who had just descried us, and to whom our figures, brought in bold relief against the sky, were plainly revealed.

In fine, to return to our knowledge of the short life of fashions that are for the moment striking, why should we waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances, when we can be warmed and invigorated in the sunshine of the great literatures?

Quite possibly the fumes of his strange concoction, together with an overdose of aspirin invigorated by the reaction of much raw liquor, were sufficient to create a fluoroscopic man instead of a fluoroscopic film.

A new commercial jetport, they say, is necessary to invigorate South Dade.

The chamber was filled with an invigorating odour as the practised hand of Habas of Deir el Kamar proceeded to the great performance.

That they possess properties which exert most potent tonic, or invigorating, influences upon those organs and parts of the human system corresponding to the organs and parts of the lower animals from which they have been extracted, no longer admits of doubt.

For this reason we have taken unusual pains to investigate the causes of the disease, and have spared no expense to provide the most approved digestive solvents, and stomachic tonics, which invigorate the mucous membrane of the stomach, and materially assist in reducing the food to a liquid condition.

Tranquillity ingested thousands of tonnes of asteroidal minerals each year to regenerate its own polyp structure and invigorate the biosphere, but chemical reactions alone could never produce a fraction of the energy it needed to nurture its human occupants.

Invigorated by the absence of normal light, monstrous mushrooms and toadstools and liverworts clambered wildly over fallen logs and old stumps.

Therefore when Mrs. Bagnet at last appears, rosy from the invigorating pail, and sits down to her work, Mr.

One of the pleasantest and most invigorating exercises one can contrive is to run and jump across the Humboldt river till he is overheated, and then drink it dry.

Whit Sunday and return invigorated to grapple with their difficulties and the Bank Holiday repairs on the Monday.

Little rock plants, saxifrages mostly, thrust up among the stones and there was a warm, invigorating smell about the mountainside.

It was now September, a month in which the strong gales of the coast often appear to force themselves across the country as far as the great lakes, where the inland sailor sometimes feels that genial influence which characterizes the winds of the ocean invigorating his frame, cheering his spirits, and arousing his moral force.