verb
- Reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
- usage: "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"
- synonyms: renew
- Amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit.
- Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
- usage: "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- Return to life; get or give new life or energy.
- usage: "The week at the spa restored me"
- synonyms: restore, rejuvenate
- Replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue.
- usage: "The snake regenerated its tail"
- Be formed or shaped anew.
- Form or produce anew.
- usage: "regenerate hatred"
- Undergo regeneration.
- Restore strength.
- usage: "This food revitalized the patient"
- synonyms: revitalize
adjective
- Reformed spiritually or morally.
- usage: "a regenerate sinner"; "regenerate by redemption from error or decay"
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