- present tense form of signify (3rd person singular).
signifies
Example Sentences
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Gonzales-Day, through applying deft erasures, vivifies the wild and wicked record.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025
It both keeps you awake and helps you go to sleep, soothes the soul and vivifies your mind when all that shoveling just becomes too much.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022
He visits scientists who store spores from a mold that are dead by all standards: no metabolism, no sentience, no activity, until the addition of a bit of water vivifies them into life.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021
Exuberantly describing the greening of Earth 500 million years ago, John Archibald vivifies the origins of complex life.
From Nature • Oct. 4, 2016
There is aboard this ship a spirit of expectation which delights the heart as it vivifies the senses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
