Definition of "vitalize" []

• To endow with life; animate. (verb-transitive)
• To make more lively or vigorous; invigorate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The emotions are held to the experience and worked into its unity because they go to intensify the thought and imagination, and thus vitalize those activities (1)."
• "New Delhi says the trip, the first since a civilian government took office, is an opportunity to "further vitalize" the relationship."
• "He did revitalize poverty and he did vitalize crooks who he allowed to fleece the country."