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
- verb To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
- verb To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
galvanize — full definition
- verb To coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.
- verb To coat with a layer of zinc (for rust resistance) by electrochemical means.
- verb To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
- verb To electrify, as by galvanism.