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Rejuvenate

//ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    become young again wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate wordnet
  5. 5
    make younger or more youthful wordnet
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  1. 6
    develop youthful topographical features wordnet
  2. 7
    cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land wordnet

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.

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