Tonify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tonify is a verb meaning (traditional Chinese medicine) To increase the available energy of.
Meaning
(traditional Chinese medicine) To increase the available energy of.
More Meanings
- (more generally) To invigorate; to have a restorative effect on.
- (of muscles) To strengthen; to tone.
Example Sentences
Then he tonified himself with a cold shower and carefully dressed for dinner.
Home demand is in course of being tonified on both the investment and consumption sides.
Intellectuals are principally yang: one must tonify the yin. Rural people are principally yin: one must tonify the yang.
In two-meridian problems, for example Lung deficiency, where the Spleen would also be deficient, tonify LU-9 or LU-7 and SP-3 or SP-5.
Word Forms
- tonifies
- tonifying
- tonified
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tonic, tonicize, fortify, energize, dynamize, mediumize.
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