revive
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
to restore to life or consciousness: We revived him with artificial respiration.
to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.
to make operative or valid again.
to bring back into notice, use, or currency: to revive a subject of discussion.
to quicken or renew in the mind; bring back: to revive memories.
to reanimate or cheer (the spirit, heart, etc., or a person).
Chemistry. to restore or reduce to the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.
to return to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, or a flourishing condition.
to recover from financial depression.
to be quickened, restored, or renewed, as hope, confidence, suspicions, or memories.
to return to notice, use, or currency, as a subject, practice, or doctrine.
to become operative or valid again.
Chemistry. to recover the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.
Origin of revive
1Other words for revive
Opposites for revive
Other words from revive
- re·viv·a·ble, adjective
- re·viv·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- re·viv·a·bly, adverb
- re·viv·er, noun
- re·viv·ing·ly, adverb
- un·re·viv·a·ble, adjective
- un·re·vived, adjective
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How to use revive in a sentence
The vivid footage of the assault on the Capitol revived “horrible memories,” Daines said later.
Republican senators show emotion, but little evidence of changed minds | Seung Min Kim, Karoun Demirjian | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostAnother rare earths company may soon be going public in the US, presenting new opportunities for private investment in the domestic critical metals industry—a sector that Washington has signaled strong interest in reviving.
The US is taking steps towards breaking China’s rare earths monopoly | Mary Hui | February 5, 2021 | QuartzEA Sports announced Tuesday that it is reviving its college football video game series, a beloved franchise that was discontinued in 2013 after EA and the NCAA were taken to court over the unpaid use of player likenesses.
EA Sports revives college football franchise as courts mull NCAA’s stance on amateurism | Mike Hume, Rick Maese | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostExperts hope this will revive ecosystems and safeguard the diversity of Earth’s species.
Can people protect as much space as nature needs? | Jonathan Lambert | January 21, 2021 | Science News For StudentsAxios went as far as to name “reviving local journalism” as one of the 10 promises to readers that CEO Jim VandeHei made earlier this month in the company’s new Bill of Rights.
‘Connect the dots’: Why publishers are investing in local media to round out big national stories | Kayleigh Barber | January 20, 2021 | Digiday
Scholar-activists Larry Lessig and Zephyr Teachout have recently been working to revive it.
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMamoon and his second wife, Liana, hope it will revive his reputation, and “prompt the reissuing of his books in forty languages.”
A great chef who has fought to revive the old spirit says he fears history may repeat itself.
In War-Torn Ukraine, Savva Libkin's Delicious Recipes for Survival | Anna Nemtsova | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy friends, hurting from a night of rum-infused revelry, opt for revive.
The I.V. Doc Comes to Your House, Fights Hangovers, and Wins | Abby Haglage | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI ordered revive and now I am about to close my second deal today!
The I.V. Doc Comes to Your House, Fights Hangovers, and Wins | Abby Haglage | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonFirst Impressions are usually vivid but the power to revive them is weak—a poor memory.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)First Impressions are usually weak but the power to revive them is strong—still a poor memory.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)First Impressions on all subjects are strong and the power to revive them is strong—a first-class memory.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Thus the facts help us devise the number phrase, and the phrase helps revive the facts.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for revive
/ (rɪˈvaɪv) /
to bring or be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; resuscitate or be resuscitated: revived by a drop of whisky
to give or assume new vitality; flourish again or cause to flourish again
to make or become operative or active again: the youth movement was revived
to bring or come into use or currency again: to revive a language
(tr) to take up again: he revived his old hobby
to bring or come back to mind
(tr) theatre to mount a new production of (an old play)
Origin of revive
1Derived forms of revive
- revivable, adjective
- revivability, noun
- revivably, adverb
- reviver, noun
- reviving, adjective
- revivingly, adverb
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