Revive

Word REVIVE
Character 6
Hyphenation re vive
Pronunciations /ɹɪˈvaɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Revive"

What do we mean by revive?

To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate. intransitive verb

To give new health, strength, or spirit to. intransitive verb

To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice. intransitive verb

To present (an old play, for example) again. intransitive verb

To renew in the mind; recall. intransitive verb

To return to life or consciousness. intransitive verb

To regain health, vigor, or good spirits. intransitive verb

To return to use, currency, activity, or notice. intransitive verb

In physical geography, to rejuvenate; give renewed erosive action to by regional uplift: said of streams and rivers.

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 return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew.

To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Revive

The word "revive" in example sentences

The “further the world gets from the gulf war, the more it seems willing to let Mr. Hussein revive his deadly weapons projects.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

This further is to be observed, concerning ideas lodged in the memory, and upon occasion revived by the mind, that they are not only (as the word revive imports) none of them new ones, but also that the mind takes notice of them as of a former impression, and renews its acquaintance with them, as with ideas it had known before. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We are now having our winter snow, not indeed deep or heavy, or long lying, but more than we have had yet this season, and ice and frost that again revive my hope of getting the ice-house filled before the spring fairly comes, and we are left unprovided with what is here such an indispensable necessary of life, that we shall have to purchase it daily, if we have not our stored supply. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Now, hanging a few traitors will not kill slavery; and our danger is that slavery itself will slip through the noose, and that when it shall begin to revive from the shock, many who are now shouting "Hang the traitors," will take up the old familiar cry, "Hang the abolitionists." ❋ Unknown (1865)

It was some time since Jerry had spoken a word of German, but as she stood before Gretchen's picture old memories seemed to revive, and with them the German word for _pretty_, which she involuntarily spoke aloud. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

Could textspeak in Irish revive interest in the language? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gill Scott, the Great North Museum's Egyptology expert, explained to me that both acts "mean that nobody can say her name and revive her spirit in the after-world", and both acts must have been done by somebody closely involved in the mummification process. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On looking over the list of Wilmingtons 'personages who have been instrumental in moulding its character and making it one of the most desirable places on earth, and the memory of whose face and name revive the sweetest recollections of early youth in the dear old town, the name and face of Uncle Guy comes most vividly before me. ❋ Jack Thorne (N/A)

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