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Definition of Gain vigor
1. Verb. Gain or regain energy. "I picked up after a nap"
Generic synonyms: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate
Derivative terms: Pickup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gain Vigor
Literary usage of Gain vigor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Monthly Magazine (1833)
"... till he gain vigor for another and another spring, in his unwearied progress
towards that summit of science, which, though he seem to be nearing it for ..."
2. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1904)
"The local students must help themselves by adapting the suggestions of others to
their own localities, and in so doing will gain vigor, interest, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Man and beast were resting to gain vigor for the coming shock. Spite of all means
and appliances against the scorching heat,the thermometer had stood at ..."
4. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François) (1850)
"... its principles gain vigor. It had not acquired, it had not given to society
in general, a regular form, unity, or entirety ; it never will attain that. ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1889)
"... "pabulum mentis," by this intimating that they considered books as food, by
feasting on which the intellect might gain vigor and arrive at maturity. ..."
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