Definitions for vivify

vivify viv·i·fy

Spelling: [viv-uh-fahy]
IPA: /ˈvɪv əˌfaɪ/

Vivify is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in vivify (fiivvy).

Definitions for vivify

verb (used with object)

  1. to give life to; animate; quicken.
  2. to enliven; brighten; sharpen.

Origin of vivify

1535-45; alteration (with -fy for -ficate) of late Middle English vivificate Latin vīvificātus (past participle of vīvificāre). See vivi-, -fic

Examples for vivify

The teachers' meeting is not so much to get facts as to vivify and arrange them.

I would like to be able, if nothing else, to vivify for the American people the dramatic change that that event made.

He rubbed his head to relieve the pressure on his brain, and to vivify his ideas.

Yet what distant corner of the system do they not cheer and vivify?

Let us cheer them with our bounty, and vivify them with words of joy and hope.

Even your overflow of life would not suffice long to vivify me.

It signifies to vivify, sustain, or support one's self in being or existence.

They seemed to vivify, as her discontent and restlessness grew.

The abstract which we have made does not vivify us sufficiently.

The picture is complete in itself; I have only to vivify its colors during the performance.

Word Value for vivify
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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