Revive
WordNet
verb
(1) Return to consciousness
"The patient came to quickly"
"She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
(2) Give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"
(3) Cause to regain consciousness
"The doctors revived the comatose man"
(4) Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
"He revived this style of opera"
"He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
(5) Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
"Interest in ESP revived"
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Etymology
From revivre, revivere; prefix re- re- + vivere to live. See vivid.
Verb
- To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
- The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
- To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
- To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
- Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
- To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.