What does vivify mean?
Vivify means (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven..
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/ˈvɪvɪfaɪ/ · verb
(transitive) To bring to life; to enliven..
She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.
Persephone, the life force which vivifies all in the spring time, producing the manifold harvests of earth, descends with Plouton to the under world in autumn.
[T]he sculptor lifted it [a round block of stone], turned it hither and thither in his hands, brushed off the clinging soil, and finally placed it on the slender neck of the newly discovered statue. The effect was magical. It immediately lighted up and vivified the whole figure, endowing it with personality, soul, and intelligence.
Use vivify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vivify means (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven..
Common synonyms include animate, revive, revivify, reanimate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.
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