Definition of "vivify" []

• To give or bring life to; animate: vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands. (verb-transitive)
• To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven: A smile may vivify a face. (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.

• "But if you don't "vivify" the mag, you miss the movies - the main attraction."
• "Authors in this genre now labor to find Gladwellian stories and characters to vivify the theories and studies that support their counterintuitive insights."
• "Her anguish over the unfairness of life and love can seem overwrought at times, but it's tolerable and really helps vivify her ordeals."