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REGENERATE

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reformed spiritually or morally

Example:

regenerate by redemption from error or decay

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

born-again; reborn (spiritually reborn or converted)

reformed (caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one)

Also:

saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)

Antonym:

unregenerate (not reformed morally or spiritually)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restore strength

Example:

This food revitalized the patient

Synonyms:

regenerate; revitalize

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regenerate"):

rejuvenate (make younger or more youthful)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The good news will regenerate her

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo regeneration

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regenerate"):

rejuvenate (become young again)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

regeneration (forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting)

regeneration ((biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form or produce anew

Example:

regenerate hatred

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be formed or shaped anew

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

form; spring; take form; take shape (develop into a distinctive entity)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

regeneration (forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue

Example:

The snake regenerated its tail

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

regeneration ((biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Return to life; get or give new life or energy

Example:

The week at the spa restored me

Synonyms:

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regenerate"):

reincarnate; renew (cause to appear in a new form)

resurrect; revive (restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

regeneration (the activity of spiritual or physical renewal)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Example:

reform your conduct

Synonyms:

reclaim; rectify; reform; regenerate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

reform; see the light; straighten out (change for the better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regenerate"):

moralise; moralize (improve the morals of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 8

Meaning:

Amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

regeneration (feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

Example:

They renewed their membership

Synonyms:

regenerate; renew

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "regenerate" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regenerate"):

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

freshen up; refurbish; renovate (make brighter and prettier)

revamp (to patch up or renovate; repair or restore)

remold; remould; retread (give new treads to (a tire))

renovate; restitute (restore to a previous or better condition)

freshen; refresh (make (to feel) fresh)

revitalise; revitalize (give new life or vigor to)

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

modernise; modernize; overhaul (make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to)

reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

regeneration (forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting)

Credits

 Context examples: 

By reducing the amount of this specific RNA molecule, it was possible to efficiently regenerate old cells.

(Scientists Discover Molecule that Could Reverse Cellular Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Would not a life devoted to the task of regenerating your race be well spent?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After acute (short-term) damage hepatocytes are able to regenerate, but after more severe injury they are not.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

Alpha-lipoic acid acts as a free radical scavenger and assists in repairing oxidative damage and regenerates endogenous antioxidants, including vitamins C and E and glutathione.

(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Thesaurus)

In normal red blood cells, the NADPH produced by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is used to regenerate glutathione and protect cell membranes.

(Oxidative Reactions of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

When a zebrafish injures its eye, cells within the eye naturally regenerate, allowing the fish to maintain vision.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

The regenerating limbs of the bioreactor-treated frogs were thicker with more developed bones, innervation, and vascularization.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Assuming that 100 percent of the second growth persists and regenerates over 40 years, carbon storage capacity doubles in young second growth and increases by 120 percent in intermediate age forests.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

The study also demonstrates that adult regenerated central nervous system (CNS) axons are capable of navigating to correct targets in the brain.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)

Subsequently, L-arginine is converted to nitric oxide by nitric oxide synthase and L-citrulline is regenerated as a by-product.

(Citrulline, NCI Thesaurus)