regenerate
Verb:
- To restore to a better, higher, or more worthy state: To renew or revitalize something, often implying improvement or moral/spiritual renewal.
- To regrow or be formed anew: To replace lost or damaged tissue, organs, or body parts through new growth.
- To reform spiritually or morally: To cause a positive change in character or behavior.
- To generate again: To produce or create something once more.
Adjective:
- Spiritually or morally reformed: Having undergone a renewal in character or principles.
Verb:
- The community worked together to regenerate the neglected urban area.
- Some lizards can regenerate their tails if they are lost.
- He sought to regenerate his life after a period of difficulty.
- The amplifier circuit is designed to regenerate the signal.
Adjective:
- He became a regenerate man, dedicated to helping others.
"to regenerate oneself": To renew or reform one's own character, energy, or spirit.
- After the retreat, she felt she had regenerated herself and was ready for new challenges.
Used in technical/scientific contexts: Often describes biological regrowth or electronic signal renewal.
- The research focuses on how to regenerate nerve cells.
- The system uses positive feedback to regenerate the oscillating current.
Regeneration (n): The process of regenerating or the state of being regenerated.
- The regeneration of the forest took decades.
Regenerative (adj): Having the power to regenerate; relating to regeneration.
- The doctor studied the body's regenerative capabilities.
Regenerable (adj): Capable of being regenerated.
- The catalyst is regenerable and can be used multiple times.
- Renew: To make new or as if new again.
- Revitalize: To impart new life or vigor to.
- Reform: To make changes to improve something.
- Restore: To bring back to an original or functional state.
- Regrow: To grow again.
(Note: "Regenerate" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically expressed directly or with prepositions like "into.") - To regenerate into: To grow back or transform into a new form. - The plan is to regenerate the old factory site into a public park.
(Note: There are no common idioms centered solely on the word "regenerate." Its use is more literal or technical.)
- reformed spiritually or morally
- a regenerate sinner
- regenerate by redemption from error or decay
- restore strength
- This food revitalized the patient
- undergo regeneration
- form or produce anew
- regenerate hatred
- be formed or shaped anew
- replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue
- The snake regenerated its tail
- return to life; get or give new life or energy
- The week at the spa restored me
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- The Church reformed me
- reform your conduct
- amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit
- reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years
- They renewed their membership