Revive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
  • v. To impart new health, vigor, or spirit to.
  • v. To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice.
  • v. To restore the validity or effectiveness of.
  • v. To renew in the mind; recall.
  • v. To present (an old play, for example) again.
  • verb-intransitive. To return to life or consciousness.
  • verb-intransitive. To regain health, vigor, or good spirits.
  • verb-intransitive. To return to use, currency, or notice.
  • verb-intransitive. To return to validity, effectiveness, or operative condition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • v. To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
  • v. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
  • v. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
  • v. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
  • v. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
  • v. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  • v. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • verb-intransitive. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
  • verb-intransitive. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  • v. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
  • v. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
  • v. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse.
  • v. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
  • v. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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 revival
  • In 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give new life or energy to
  • v. be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
  • v. cause to regain consciousness
  • v. return to consciousness
  • v. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
  • Antonym
    restore    renew    recall   
    Verb Form
    revived    revives    reviving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    energise    brace    arouse    perk up    stimulate    energize    expand    boom    thrive    flourish   
    Cross Reference
    freshen   
    Form
    revived    reviving    revival   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reanimate    reawaken   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clive    Dr    Dr.    alive    arrive    clyve    connive    contrive    deprive    derive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts