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revive
[ ri-vahyv ]
verb (used with object)
- to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew:
to revive old feuds.
Synonyms: reactivate
- to restore to life or consciousness:
We revived him with artificial respiration.
Synonyms: resuscitate, reanimate, revitalize
Antonyms: kill
- to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.
- to make operative or valid again.
Synonyms: reactivate
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- 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.
revive
/ rɪˈvaɪv /
verb
- 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)
Derived Forms
- reˈvivingly, adverb
- reˈviving, adjective
- reˈvivable, adjective
- reˈvivably, adverb
- reˌvivaˈbility, noun
- reˈviver, noun
Other Words From
- re·viva·ble adjective
- re·viva·bili·ty noun
- re·viva·bly adverb
- re·viver noun
- re·viving·ly adverb
- unre·viva·ble adjective
- unre·vived adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of revive1
Example Sentences
Scholar-activists Larry Lessig and Zephyr Teachout have recently been working to revive it.
Mamoon 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.
My friends, hurting from a night of rum-infused revelry, opt for Revive.
I ordered Revive and now I am about to close my second deal today!
HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
First Impressions are usually vivid but the power to revive them is weak—a poor memory.
First Impressions are usually weak but the power to revive them is strong—still a poor memory.
First Impressions on all subjects are strong and the power to revive them is strong—a first-class memory.
Thus the facts help us devise the number phrase, and the phrase helps revive the facts.
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