life-giving

See also: lifegiving

English

Adjective

life-giving (comparative more life-giving, superlative most life-giving)

Necessary for life.
- 1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
  The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC.
We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.

Translations

necessary for life

Bulgarian: животворен (bg) (životvoren)
Greek:
Ancient: βιόδωρος (biódōros)
Latin: vitālis
Macedonian: живо́творен (živótvoren)
Maori: whakamanapou
Norwegian:
Bokmål: livgivende
Polish: życiodajny

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