elvyttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- energize verb To give energy, enthusiasm, or vitality to someone or something.
- quicken verb To make something happen faster or more quickly.
- refresh verb To make someone feel more energetic or awake, often with rest, food, or a drink.
- regenerate verb To grow new tissue to replace what was lost or damaged.
- resuscitate verb To bring someone back to consciousness or revive them from apparent death.
- revive verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.
- stimulate verb To encourage activity, growth, or interest.
Senses
elvyttää is used for these senses in English:
- energize (transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic.
- quicken (literary, also, figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. [from 14th c.]
- refresh (transitive) To renew or revitalize.
- regenerate (transitive) To revitalize.
- resuscitate (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
- revive To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
- stimulate To encourage into action.
- stimulate To arouse an organism to functional activity.
energize — full definition
- verb To give energy, enthusiasm, or vitality to someone or something.
- verb To supply electrical power to a device or circuit.
quicken — full definition
- verb To make something happen faster or more quickly.
- verb To become faster.
- verb To bring to life or stir into activity; to arouse or stimulate.