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# vigour

«vigour» in Mova's school dictionary: **great strength, energy and enthusiasm in the body or the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (vigour — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vigour is great strength, energy and enthusiasm in the body or the mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#m1)

2) Vigour can describe healthy, strong growth of plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and health, exercise gives you vigour. In stories, a character works «with vigour», meaning hard and with energy, as Badger does when he starts to fight. In gardening, a plant grows with vigour when it is healthy.

### examples

- He scrubbed the floor with great vigour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x1)
- The old man still had the vigour of a young one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x2)
- The team played with new vigour after half-time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x3)
- The roses grew with vigour after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x4)
- She argued with vigour for her idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x5)
- The Rat rowed with vigour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x6)
- Heracles now regained his former vigour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Spelling: vigour (UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Ireland), vigor (US). Adjective: vigorous (no u in either spelling). Adverb: vigorously.

### In the corpora

- [Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.126/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vigour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.