VITALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitalize mean? 

• VITALIZE (verb)
  The verb VITALIZE has 2 senses:

1. give life to

2. make more lively or vigorous

  Familiarity information: VITALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vitalize    ... he / she / it vitalizes   
Past simple: vitalized   
Past participle: vitalized   
-ing form: vitalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give life to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

vitalise; vitalize

Context example:

The eggs are vitalized

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

vital (manifesting or characteristic of life)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make more lively or vigorous

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

vitalise; vitalize

Context example:

The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man

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

beef up; fortify; strengthen (make strong or stronger)

Sentence frames:

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

Antonym:

devitalize (sap of life or energy)

Derivation:

vital (full of spirit; full of life)

vitalization (the state of being vitalized and filled with life)

vitalizer (someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people)

 Context examples 

Since mid-February, you have had action planet Mars in Capricorn vitalizing the other planets gathered in Capricorn, your solar fifth house of truelove.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And you're responsible for it, what of your man, who is always the erected, the vitalized inorganic, the latest of the ephemera, the creature of temperature strutting his little space on the thermometer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh, I mean the real interpretative biology, from the ground up, from the laboratory and the test-tube and the vitalized inorganic right on up to the widest aesthetic and sociological generalizations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)