revigorate

English

Etymology

Latin re- + vigoratus

Verb

revigorate (third-person singular simple present revigorates, present participle revigorating, simple past and past participle revigorated)

1. (obsolete) To give new vigour to.

Adjective

revigorate (comparative more revigorate, superlative most revigorate)

1. (obsolete) Having new vigour or strength; reinvigorated.
   • 1814, Robert Southey, “Canto VII”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 95:

     The fire which seem'd extinct / Hath risen revigorate: a living spark / From Auria's ashes, by a woman's hand / Preserved and quicken'd, kindles far and wide / The beacon-flame o'er all the Asturian hills.

Anagrams

• graveteiro, overtriage