vivify
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The “Ring” operas went on to vivify everything from the Nazi obsession with the Aryan superman to the blockbuster superhero of our own day.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020
Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018
Words realize nothing; vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018
He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017
This same diphthong is also written with the Greek y,—in my, thy, cry, try, fry, wry, fly, ply, asylum, dynasty, petrify, signify, vilify, vivify, simplify, rectify, edify, notify, &c.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.
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