What does "rejuvenate" mean?
To render young again.
Rejuvenate
/ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: To render young again.
- Grammar: rejuvenate is listed as verb.
- Nearest alternatives: regenerate, bring back, bring to, call back.
- Useful contrasts: exhausted, fatigued, jaded.
- Usage evidence: A lot of these soils are destroyed from growing tobacco. So, growing a crop like millet helps rejuvenate them.
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 To render young again.
"Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the occasional red-light therapy session."
- 2 become young again wordnet
- 3 To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise.
"The exercise involved in recrafting the past, past encounters and memories actually rejuvenates short-term and present memory — remarkably!"
- 4 get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate wordnet
- 5 make younger or more youthful wordnet
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- 6 develop youthful topographical features wordnet
- 7 cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"A lot of these soils are destroyed from growing tobacco. So, growing a crop like millet helps rejuvenate them."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "rejuvenate"?
Common synonyms include: regenerate, bring back, bring to, call back, energizes students, enliven.
How do you use "rejuvenate" in a sentence?
A lot of these soils are destroyed from growing tobacco. So, growing a crop like millet helps rejuvenate them.
How do you pronounce "rejuvenate"?
Pronounced /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/.
Etymology
From re- (“again”) + Latin iuvenis (“young”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Old French rejuvener. Displaced native Middle English gingen, from Old English *ġinġan (literally “to make young”), equivalent to Old English ġeong + Old English -an.