vivify
         v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
               "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
               my health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate},
               {revive}, {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify},
               {revivify}]
         2: make more striking or animated; "his remarks always vivify an
            otherwise dull story"

English Dictionary: vivify	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vivify \Viv"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vivified}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Vivifying}.] [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See {Vivid},       {-fy}; cf. {Vivificate}.]       To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to       animate.                   Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. --Bacon.