ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Regeneration

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Regeneration is a noun meaning Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.

Meaning

Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.

More Meanings

  1. (theology) Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
  2. (Christianity) The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
  3. The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
  4. (roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
  5. The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.

Example Sentences

The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration.
The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.
Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot.

Word Forms

Synonyms for regeneration

Depending on context, synonyms include palingenesia, rebirth, regen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include renovation, renovate, reconstruction, refurbishment, refurbishing, restoration.

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