vivify

/ˌvɪvəˈfaɪ/

Other forms: vivifying; vivified; vivifies

When you vivify something, you bring new excitement or life to it. If you decide to liven up your boring apartment by painting the walls every color of the rainbow, you can say that you're trying to vivify your home.

You might vivify your family's meals by experimenting with exotic spices or vivify your school by hiring circus performers to ride unicycles up and down the halls. The Latin root word of vivify is vivus, or "alive," which is also the origin of the closely related word vivid.

Definitions of vivify

1. verb

   give new life or energy to
   synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify

   come to, resuscitate, revive

   return to consciousness

   type of:

   arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate

   cause to be alert and energetic
2. verb

   make more striking or animated
   “his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story”

   type of:

   alter, change, modify

   cause to change; make different; cause a transformation