Thesaurus: vigor

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1. n. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
2. n. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
3. n. Strength; efficacy; potency.
4. v. t. To invigorate.
5. n. forceful exertion
6. n. active strength of body or mind
7. n. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
8. 1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden. 2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor. 3. Strength; efficacy; potency. But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. Milton. Note: Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure. To invigorate. [Obs.] Feltham.
9. To invigorate. [Obs.] Feltham.
10. n:100 n. active strength of body or mind