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Regenerate   /ridʒˈɛnərˌeɪt/   Listen
Regenerate

verb
1.
Reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.  Synonym: renew.  "They renewed their membership"
2.
Amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit.
3.
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.  Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform.  "Reform your conduct"
4.
Return to life; get or give new life or energy.  Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore.
5.
Replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue.
6.
Be formed or shaped anew.
7.
Form or produce anew.
8.
Undergo regeneration.
9.
Restore strength.  Synonym: revitalize.
adjective
1.
Reformed spiritually or morally.  "Regenerate by redemption from error or decay"  Antonym: unregenerate.





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"Regenerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Renascence, when thy soul Cast the sweet robing of the flesh aside, Into these lovelier marble limbs it stole, Regenerate in art's sunrise clear and wide As saints who, having kept faith's raiment whole, Change it above for ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... cuttlefish over the spurs and shoulders of that desecrated mountain. No woods, no moss, no coolness, no greenery; all nature toned down to one monotonous grayness. And this dreary desert was indeed the place where her baby must be born, the baby predestined to regenerate humanity! ...
— The Woman Who Did • Grant Allen
... rescued him from one of his periodical plunges into the cesspool of debauch, and he was peaked, pallid, penitent. Listlessly he stared at me a long moment, the dull, hollow-eyed stare of the recently regenerate. ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... the glory of the Spirit's power possessed all their best thought. Night after night that week witnessed miracles as great as walking on the sea or feeding the multitude with a few loaves and fishes. For what greater miracle is there than a regenerate humanity? The transformation of these coarse, brutal, sottish lives into praying, rapturous lovers of Christ, struck Rachel and Virginia every time with the feeling that people may have had when they saw Lazarus walk out of the tomb. ...
— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon
... God of Mohammed ... "spares the sins the Arab loves. A religion that does not purify the home cannot regenerate the race; one that depraves the home is certain to deprave humanity. Motherhood is to be sacred if manhood is to be honorable. Spoil the wife of sanctity and for the man the sanctities of life have ...
— Two Old Faiths - Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans • J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir


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