| 1. to produce alive, begat or bear living young
2. to cause to live, make alive, give life 1) by spiritual power to arouse and invigorate 2) to restore to life 3) to give increase of life: thus of physical life 4) of the spirit, quickening as respects the spirit, endued with new and greater powers of life 3. metaph., of seeds quickened into life, i.e. germinating, springing up, growing |