To return to life after actual or seeming death; resume vital functions or activities: as, to revive after a swoon.To live again; have a second life.To gain fresh life and vigor; be reanimated or quickened; recover strength, as after languor or depression.To be renewed in the mind or memory: as, the memory of his wrongs revived within him; past emotions sometimes revive.To regain use or currency; come into general use, practice, or acceptance, as after a period of neglect or disuse; become current once more.In chem., to recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.To bring back to life; revivify; resuscitate after actual or seeming death or destruction; restore to a previous mode of existence.To quicken; refresh; rouse from languor, depression, or discouragement.To renew in the mind or memory; recall; reawaken.To restore to use, practice, or general acceptance; make current, popular, or authoritative once more; recover from neglect or disuse: as, to revive a law or a custom.To renovate.To reproduce; represent after a lapse of time, especially upon the stage: as, to revive an old play.In law, to reinstate, as an action or suit which has become abated. See revivalIn chem., to restore or reduce to its natural state or to its metallic state: as, to revive a metal after calcination.In physical geography, to rejuvenate; give renewed erosive action to by regional uplift: said of streams and rivers.