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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rejuvenate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After a workout, I feel rejuvenated.
▪ Mr. Maynard has an excellent chance to rejuvenate the Tribune.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the beginning of a second term is a perfect time for a rejuvenating administration shake-up.
▪ But the channels may alter the water drainage pattern in the dry area and help to rejuvenate it, he said.
▪ However, Mr Yeltsin, rejuvenated by victory, is in no mood for compromise.
▪ Their vacations would be ruined, but their world would be rejuvenated.
▪ Within a minute or so you have one fully rejuvenated disk drive, hopefully.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rejuvenate

Rejuvenate \Re*ju"ve*nate\ (r?-j?"v?-n?t), v. t. [Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young, youthful.] To render young again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rejuvenate

1807, irregular formation from re- "again" + Latin juvenis (see young (adj.)) + -ate (2). Related: Rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

Wiktionary
rejuvenate

vb. To render young again.

WordNet
rejuvenate
  1. v. cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land

  2. develop youthful topographical features; "the land rejuvenated"

  3. make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him" [ant: age]

  4. return to life; get or give new life or energy; "The week at the spa restored me" [syn: regenerate, restore]

  5. become young again; "The old man rejuvenated when he became a grandfather"

Usage examples of "rejuvenate".

Geble, my mother, was then Queen of all Gola, and I was by her side in Morka, that pleasant seaside resort, where I shall soon travel to partake of its rejuvenating waters.

I enjoyed perfect health, and almost felt as if I had been rejuvenated.

With the discovery of homeobox genes they have been rejuvenated in a more sophisticated form.

Lean, pallid students have found themselves plump and blooming, and it has happened that one whose hair was straight as gnat of an Indian has been startled to behold himself in his mirror with a fringe of hyacinthine curls about his rejuvenated countenance.

As you can see, their nurturing attention rejuvenated me, and I have returned to England to claim my husband and my child.

This work was nothing less than the buying of the furniture and appointments for the rejuvenated ranch house at Quien Sabe, where they were to live.

Ori Lavin, normally a calm, pragmatic Pelorist, almost a caricature of that sect, had reacted to Bilong as if to a shot of rejuvenating hormones, and sleeked his moustache every time she undulated by.

Below as well as aloft, the reinvigorated crew was making final preparations for departure, as much rejuvenated by the respite from sailing and rough weather as was their ship.

For as you conquer one problem your other bodily and mental functions are revitalized and rejuvenated.

Mehtar had hypothesized that there was a limit to the resiliency of rejuvenated cells and that Soli, who had thrice been brought back to youth, was close to that limit.

But after our revered rejuvenated phrase-pinching Scaurus Princeps Senatus friskily examined their credentials, he denied them an audience on the grounds that they had no official status.

The globs that had been shot were rejuvenated by the others, joining together to form larger globs.

She took another sip of the delicious homa, already beginning to feel rejuvenated.

It was true, then, that certain Amazons had not only metamorphic but rejuvenating powers!

Most biologists believe the net ban will greatly rejuvenate stocks of sea trout and other species.