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💧 To make younger 🌊 To renew land
to rejuvenate

to rejuvenate

1 6.4
Make land or rivers look younger and have stronger water flow
  • verb
  • /rɪˈdʒuːvəˌneɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : rejuvenecer
  • And it's really important to always rejuvenate the soil with with more nutrients because after you grow stuff it, you know it, it takes it when it grows.

Examples

  • By the fourth year, the land that had been cultivated first would have rejuvenated.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Free-flowing water would also help rejuvenate the depleted fishery in the Gulf of California by delivering lost nutrients.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Since 1996, China has implemented programs to rejuvenate its agricultural sector.

    Academic text (1999)

  • They may address specific environmental challenges, rejuvenate ecosystem function, and improve the delivery of ecosystem services.

    Academic text (2013)

  • To help rejuvenate the exhausted cotton lands, agricultural societies like the Hancock Planters' Club in Hancock County investigated the use of manure as fertilizer.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Similarly, many natural hazards perform natural service functions over long time scales; for example, floods can deliver fertile sediments to enhance the productivity of floodplains, and wildfires can rejuvenate forests.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The floods flushed out the brackish water and rejuvenated the environment.

  • Fire is a natural event in Western forests that rejuvenates the soil and maintains a diversity of plants and animals.

  • Existing fields are planted with appropriate crops and rotated to rejuvenate the land.

Synonyms

to renew
vsto rejuvenate
94 3.7

Start again after a pause, often a relationship or activity

develops youthful land or stream features through uplift or erosion
to revitalize
vsto rejuvenate
  • US
45 4.8

To give new life and energy to something

develops youthful land or stream features through uplift or erosion
to reinvigorate
vsto rejuvenate
19 5.7

To give new energy and interest to a person or thing

develops youthful land or stream features through uplift or erosion
to reenergize
vsto rejuvenate
  • US
3 4.1

To give new energy and enthusiasm to a person or thing

develops youthful land or stream features through uplift or erosion
to revivify
vsto rejuvenate
  • Formal
1 8.5

To give new life and energy to people or things

develops youthful land or stream features through uplift or erosion

Antonyms

to erode
83 4.2

Gradually make someone's trust, belief, or support weaker over time

to degrade
49 5.1

To make something worse in quality or value

How Rejuvenated

to rejuvenate
  • Specialized
1 6.4
to revive
104 4.2
to renew
175 2.8

Surface Forms

rejuvenate infinitive
rejuvenated past
rejuvenated past participle
rejuvenating present participle
rejuvenates third person singular

Morphology

rejuvenate = juvenate (semi-transparent) = re + juven + ate

Same structural formation as the general verb sense, but the geological usage is a specialized metaphorical extension.

Etymology

Rejuvenate comes from the Latin parts re- 'again' and juvenis 'young', the same root you find in juvenile. That's why people say a river or land 'rejuvenates' when it becomes 'young again' and starts to form fresh, active shapes.