What's the difference between invigorate and reinvigorate?

Invigorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
  • (2) "This will transform and invigorate the whole nature of Scottish television news while the parallel use of web platforms will engage and involve viewers in a way which has never been ventured on this scale."
  • (3) David Folkerts-Landau, chief economist with Deutsche Bank, has also said the influx of refugees has “the potential not just to invigorate our economy but to protect prosperity for future generations”.
  • (4) To the dark immensity of material Nature's indifference we can oppose only the brief light, like a lamp in a cabin, of our consciousness; the invigorating benison of Walden is to make us feel that the contest is equal, and fair.
  • (5) As a journalist, I confess that watching her is both invigorating and rather intimidating.
  • (6) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
  • (7) Barack Obama is pinning his hopes on a re-invigorated Iraqi army and moderate Syrian rebels to help defeat militants who are menacing northern Iraq and Syria, as part of a new, detailed strategy to step up American military intervention to confront the movement.
  • (8) Spurs were invigorated and when Kane curled in a beauty two minutes later, taking aim from a position where most players would not even have thought a shot was on, the ground was in a state of near-euphoria.
  • (9) The treatment of 488 cases with anorexy in children showed that the curative effect of the group using Chinese medicines based on the differentiation of symptoms and signs by (1) activating the Spleen, (2) invigorating and activating the spleen was significantly higher than the control using concentrated vitamin B complex (P less than 0.001).
  • (10) At first glance Van Gaal resembled a chef who had been asked to provide a roast dinner, only to find that there was no meat in the fridge, yet United’s manager was invigorated by the challenge of solving the tactical puzzle and Watford struggled to come to terms with the visitors’ fluid formation at first.
  • (11) Before she appeared on stage alongside her father, speakers warmed up the crowd with the invigorating soul classic Midnight Train to Georgia.
  • (12) This study investigated, with microelectrode technic, the effects of electrical activities in pacemaker cells of sinoatrial node by Qixue injection consisting of Ginseng, Astragali and Angelicae sinensis, which may replenish the Qi and invigorate the circulation of blood.
  • (13) Following recent advances in molecular and cell biology, development of hepatocyte transplantation has been considerably invigorated.
  • (14) "The effects of inbreeding may not be as noticeable in the first generation as the invigoration immediately apparent after crossing".
  • (15) Smethers is hoping to tap into the new energy of an invigorated women’s movement, which has seen the emergence of online campaigns such as the Everyday Sexism project, and No More Page 3 .
  • (16) Such action invigorates reflection, and vice versa.
  • (17) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
  • (18) Hopefully the Chancellor is invigorated following her trip yesterday to a beer tent in Abensberg, Bavaria.... More liquidity needed.
  • (19) White announced his role on the Record Store Day website , saying he would be "proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves."
  • (20) It started in the community but it has invigorated the women’s movement and brought coalitions together with a real impact in every direction.” We’ll find out which direction today.

Reinvigorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To invigorate anew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the National Farmers' Union and Tories have achieved with this policy is to reinvigorate the animal rights movement and particularly hunt saboteurs, whose numbers have swelled massively since the culls began.
  • (2) Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central, said: “Given that the Conservatives are in disarray and Labour has a reinvigorated membership … these elections are an excellent opportunity to significantly increase our political representation right across the country.
  • (3) All inventive incision, the winger's arrival reinvigorated a suddenly possession-monopolising City.
  • (4) The new relationship, for the time being, is to be built around nuclear disarmament, which Obama said was a "good place to start" to reinvigorate a relationship he argued had been allowed to "drift" in recent years.
  • (5) I am confident Senator Hart will help the parties strengthen the institutions and economy of Northern Ireland, as well as reinvigorate efforts to promote a shared society.
  • (6) The steps to be taken include reinvigorating the ideological conviction for the unification process, not only among the political leadership of the continent but also within the wider public, through a rigorous articulation of African unity as a path for development and transformation.
  • (7) They more often want to create great educational opportunities for all students but the system fails them by not allowing them to refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate and revitalise themselves and their teaching materials in meaningful ways.
  • (8) To reinvigorate Channel 4's programming lineup and rediscover what the broadcaster is for.
  • (9) Then they could reflect on how to reinvigorate their party with a fresh sense of purpose more suited to the realities of the modern world.
  • (10) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
  • (11) Reinvigorating world trade and investment is essential for restoring global growth.
  • (12) I come out of the sea reinvigorated – and determined.
  • (13) Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it.” Aykroyd, who co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies and starred as eccentric parapsychologist Ray Stantz, spent several years trying to convince original co-star Bill Murray to reprise his role as Peter Venkman in a followup to 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2.
  • (14) The industry is waiting to see who Crozier will choose to reinvigorate demoralised producers.
  • (15) The Liberal Democrat Vince Cable made a stab at reinvigorating property as a revenue source two years ago, with his ham-fisted "mansion tax" of 1% on houses worth over £2m.
  • (16) He has promised a reinvigorated business with more new products and sharper communication with customers.
  • (17) His career only really began to flourish when, as an under-secretary (1972-76) in the DTI, he was responsible for Labour's attempt to reinvigorate the economy through reorganisation of the manufacturing base.
  • (18) The EU and a number of its member states are responding to this crisis by offering aid to Eritrea with the aim of reinvigorating its stagnant economy based on unofficial assurances that national service will be scaled back in the future.
  • (19) That technology exists.” Fiorina thought this would reinvigorate the political process and “people would be excited to be engaged in the critical questions of their time”.
  • (20) That means that tablet shipments are now 60% as large as PC shipments, in a category which had languished since Microsoft created it in 2000 until January 2010, when Apple reinvigorated it with the first iPad.