RENEWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renewing mean? 

• RENEWING (adjective)
  The adjective RENEWING has 1 sense:

1. tending to impart new life and vigor to

  Familiarity information: RENEWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENEWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to impart new life and vigor to

Synonyms:

renewing; restorative; revitalising; revitalizing; reviving

Context example:

the renewing warmth of the sunshine

Similar:

invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)

 Context examples 

The change had perhaps been somewhat sudden;—her proposal of taking another turn, her renewing the conversation which she had just put an end to, might be a little extraordinary!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Much as she had suffered from her first conversation with Lucy on the subject, she soon felt an earnest wish of renewing it; and this for more reasons than one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything, I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A specialized, self-renewing cell in the bone marrow that has the capacity to differentiate into a cell with a particular function, but especially a myeloid progenitor cell.

(Multipotent Bone Marrow Stem Cell with Wide Myeloid Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

A specialized, self-renewing cell in the bone marrow that has the capacity to differentiate into a cell with a particular function.

(Multipotent Bone Marrow Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Renewing then my courage, and gathering my feeble remains of strength, I pushed on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) is a biphasic disease, initiated by expression of the BCR/ABL fusion gene product in self-renewing, haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Multipotent self-renewing adherent non-hematopoietic stromal cells harvested from a patient's bone marrow and grown in vitro.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Thesaurus)

The idea of renewing my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a voluntary act of mine could avert it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)