INVIGORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invigorate mean? 

• INVIGORATE (verb)
  The verb INVIGORATE has 4 senses:

1. heighten or intensify

2. give life or energy to

3. make lively

4. impart vigor, strength, or vitality to

  Familiarity information: INVIGORATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVIGORATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they invigorate    ... he / she / it invigorates   
Past simple: invigorated   
Past participle: invigorated   
-ing form: invigorating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heighten or intensify

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate

Context example:

These paintings exalt the imagination

Hypernyms (to "invigorate" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invigorate"):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

invigoration (the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give life or energy to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

invigorate; quicken

Context example:

The cold water invigorated him

Hypernyms (to "invigorate" is one way to...):

excite; stimulate (act as a stimulant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

invigoration (the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something)

invigoration (quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make lively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up

Context example:

let's liven up this room a bit

Hypernyms (to "invigorate" is one way to...):

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invigorate"):

ginger up; jazz up; juice up; pep up (make more interesting or lively)

inspirit; spirit; spirit up (infuse with spirit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to invigorate Sue

Derivation:

invigoration (the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something)

invigoration (quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Impart vigor, strength, or vitality to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

invigorate; reinvigorate

Context example:

Exercise is invigorating

Hypernyms (to "invigorate" is one way to...):

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

invigoration (the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something)

invigoration (quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous)

invigorator (an agent that gives or restores life or vigor)

 Context examples 

Lots of new people will walk into your life, and the experience will refresh and invigorate you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“The bath!” he said; “the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Watson, I think our quiet rest in the country has been a distinct success, and I shall certainly return much invigorated to Baker Street to-morrow.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This northern air is invigorating and pleasant, so I propose to spend a few days upon your moors, and to occupy my mind as best I may.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now isn't it, Miss Trotwood, isn't it, David, invigorating, said Mrs. Markleham, mechanically following her with her eyes, to find a man at Doctor Strong's time of life, with the strength of mind to do this kind of thing?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on Heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Catherine, though she could not help wondering that with such perfect command of his horse, he should think it necessary to alarm her with a relation of its tricks, congratulated herself sincerely on being under the care of so excellent a coachman; and perceiving that the animal continued to go on in the same quiet manner, without showing the smallest propensity towards any unpleasant vivacity, and (considering its inevitable pace was ten miles an hour) by no means alarmingly fast, gave herself up to all the enjoyment of air and exercise of the most invigorating kind, in a fine mild day of February, with the consciousness of safety.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)