The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitalize \Vi"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitalizing.] [Cf. F. vitaliser.] To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "to give life to," from vital + -ize. Figurative sense by 1805. Related: Vitalized; vitalizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of vitalise English)
WordNet
v. give life to; "The eggs are vitalized" [syn: vitalise]
make more lively or vigorous; "The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man" [syn: vitalise] [ant: devitalize]
Usage examples of "vitalize".
Each enteched Bakuran would power or shield a battle droid fighter or vitalize some critical ship component on one of the large cruisers.
Should this vitalizing power be termed nerve-force, electricity, heat, or motion?
Leucorrheal matter may destroy the vitalizing power of the sperm-cells.
And when these exercises especially advised for stimulating the nerve centers and for strengthening and vitalizing the spine are combined with a liberal use of hot water, the blood is forced through all the tissues, with the general effect of thoroughly cleansing all parts, in addition to immediately cleansing the alimentary canal.
The improvement in the condition of your skin, in the purity of your blood, and in the degree of energy that you will enjoy will more than repay you for your efforts in following the various suggestions made for cleansing, strengthening, and vitalizing the alimentary canal.
It is our great vitalizing and life-giving principle, both in the realms of animal life and plant life.
In my reference to sun baths in the preceding chapter on Blood Purification I placed special emphasis upon the value of light as a vitalizing and stimulating factor in life and health.
I entered the trilobate dome and ransacked its crypts for the energy crystals which would vitalize the metal automatons.
Mind, spanning aeons, which hold the world in balance, removing dead wood, and vitalizing and renewing harmony between all forms?
Yet Little Asia was permitted to survive in all its quasi-legal squalor for the same reason that Hong Kong had once been tolerated by communist China: It helped to vitalize the nation's centralized, planned economy.
This of Epicurus was disentombed and, as it were, vitalized by Gassendi, in the beginning of the seventeenth century.
But here in the jet-rotor, Hooper's Flea, she was wakeful and always alert, and she vitalized Hooper with her energy.
More than accepted itvalued it, counted on it, been vitalized by it, and wanted more.
C-K had always prided itself on its open broadcasts, part of the whole atmosphere of freedom that had vitalized it.
And the joy with which he sang vitalized the most hackneyed song, the most familiar aria.