REBIRTH Synonyms

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

• feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input

• the activity of spiritual or physical renewal

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

• the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored

• the act of restoring to a more youthful condition

• the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

• the act of renewing

• filling again by supplying what has been used up

• bringing again into activity and prominence

• bringing again into activity and prominence

• an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion

• awaken once again

• a second or new birth

• the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries

• the revival of learning and culture

• an event that results in a transformation

• a change in the units or form of an expression:

• a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown

• a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis

• a change of religion

• interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

• act of exchanging one type of money or security for another

• the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another

• after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body

• embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)

• a second or new birth

• the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions

• a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life