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synonyms for come to life

  • animate
  • arouse
  • awaken
  • brighten
  • cheer
  • comfort
  • console
  • encourage
  • energize
  • enkindle
  • enliven
  • exhilarate
  • gladden
  • inspirit
  • invigorate
  • overcome
  • please
  • quicken
  • rally
  • reactivate
  • reawaken
  • recondition
  • recover
  • refresh
  • rejuvenate
  • rekindle
  • relieve
  • renew
  • renovate
  • repair
  • restore
  • resurrect
  • resuscitate
  • revitalize
  • revivify
  • rouse
  • solace
  • strengthen
  • bounce back
  • breathe new life into
  • bring around
  • bring to
  • come around
  • make whole
  • snap out of it
  • spring up
  • touch up
  • wake up

antonyms for come to life

MOST RELEVANT
  • agitate
  • annoy
  • bore
  • break
  • calm
  • damage
  • deaden
  • depress
  • destroy
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dispirit
  • dissuade
  • disturb
  • dull
  • enervate
  • hurt
  • injure
  • kill
  • lose
  • ruin
  • sadden
  • tire
  • trouble
  • upset
  • weaken
  • worry
  • bore
  • break
  • damage
  • depress
  • destroy
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dissuade
  • dull
  • hurt
  • kill
  • ruin
  • weaken
  • agitate
  • annoy
  • deaden
  • disturb
  • sadden
  • trouble
  • upset
  • worry
  • suppress
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How to use come to life in a sentence

In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
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