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1. Give new life or energy to
   "A hot soup will vivify me";
   - animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, revivify
    
2. Make more striking or animated
   "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"

Derived forms: vivifying, vivifies, vivified

Type of: alter, arouse, brace, change, energise [Brit], energize, modify, perk up, stimulate