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23 words match “INVIGORATE”

INVIGORATE v.
te; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury.
DISINVIGORATE v.
To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.
REINVIGORATE v.
To invigorate anew.
COMFORT v.
To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. [Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.
CORDIAL a.
Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. Behold this cordial julep here That flames and dances in his crystal bounds. Milton.
DECOCT v.
To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.] "Decoct their cold blood." Shak.
ELIXIR n.
Any cordial or substance which invigorates. The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. Addison.
ENFORCE v.
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. Burke.
ENLIVENER n.
One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.
ENVIGOR v.
To invigorate. [Obs.]
INNERVE v.
To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.
INSINEW v.
To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate. [Obs.] All members of our cause, . . . That are insinewed to this action. Shak.
INSPIRIT v.
To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate. The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition. Pope.
INVIGOR v.
To invigorate. [Obs.]
INVIGORATION n.
The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.
RAISE v.
To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
REANIMATE v.
to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.
RECRUIT v.
Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
REFRESH v.
strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Shak.
RENERVE v.
To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.
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