Vitalize v. t. (past & past part. vitalized; pres. part. vitalizing) To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
... sheltered, comfortable lives to face hardships and brave dangers without a question. And no sharper proof of the failure of the old social order to provide for human instincts and needs could be found than the conviction they gave of new and vitalizing forces released in them. The timidities with which their sex is supposedly encumbered had disappeared, and even the possibility of a disaster at sea held no terrors for them. When the sun fell down into the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the cabins ... — The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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