Vitalize \Vi"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vitalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vitalizing}.] [Cf. F. vitaliser.] To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
vitalizing adj : giving or having the power to give life and spirit; "returning the life-giving humus to the land"- Louis Bromfield; "life-giving love and praise"; "the vitalizing rays of the warming sun" [syn: {life-giving}]