REGENERATE


Meaning of REGENERATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪdʒenəreɪt ]

( regenerates, regenerating, regenerated)

1.

To regenerate something means to develop and improve it to make it more active, successful, or important, especially after a period when it has been getting worse.

The government will continue to try to regenerate inner city areas.

VERB : V n

• re‧gen‧era‧tion

...the physical and economic regeneration of the area.

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2.

If organs or tissues regenerate or if something regenerates them, they heal and grow again after they have been damaged.

Nerve cells have limited ability to regenerate if destroyed...

Newts can regenerate their limbs.

VERB : V , V n

• re‧gen‧era‧tion

Vitamin B assists in red-blood-cell regeneration.

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