Vivify

Word: Vivify

Part of Speech: Verb.

Definition: To bring to life, either figuratively or literally.

Synonyms: Enliven.

Antonyms: Deaden.

Helpful hints to remember: Consider the roots of the words; Viv, or life, comes from latin, and -fy, which means “to make or cause”, comes from old French.

Sentences:

• Dr. Frankenstein's ultimate goal was to vivify the spare body parts he had sewn together.
• The widower's only reprieve from his hectic life was when he could vivify his wife in his vibrant memory.
• “Among his most potent pictures are self-portraits that vivify notions of sight as an internal, psychic, erotic and charged process.”