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оживи́ть — meaning in English

ozhivit

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English meaning

  • enliven verb To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
  • galvanize verb To coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.
  • quicken verb To make something happen faster or more quickly.
  • reanimate verb To animate again.
  • resurrect verb To bring someone back to life after death.
  • revive verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.
  • vivify verb To bring to life; to enliven.

Senses

оживи́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • buck up (idiomatic, intransitive) To become encouraged, reinvigorated, or cheerful; to summon one's courage or spirits; to pluck up courage.
  • enliven (transitive) To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
  • galvanize (figurative) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
  • 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.]
  • reanimate (ambitransitive) To restore (someone or something) to animation or life; to come back to animation or life.
  • resurrect (intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.
  • 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.
  • vivify (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven.

enliven — full definition

  1. verb To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
  2. verb To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.

galvanize — full definition

  1. verb To coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.
  2. verb To coat with a layer of zinc (for rust resistance) by electrochemical means.
  3. verb To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
  4. verb To electrify, as by galvanism.

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