 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revive
verb
1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the
comatose man" [syn: {resuscitate}]
2: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
my health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {renovate},
{repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}]
3: be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength;
"Interest in ESP revived"
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" [syn: {resurrect}]
5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She
revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: {come
to}, {resuscitate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revive \Re*vive"\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. F. reviver. See {Revive}, verb (used without an object)]
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died,
shall be revived. --Bp. Pearson.
2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or
discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
--Shak.
Your coming, friends, revives me. --Milton.
3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as,
to revive letters or learning.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection;
to recall attention to; to reawaken. ''Revive the libels
born to die.'' --Swift.
The mind has a power in many cases to revive
perceptions which it has once had. --Locke.
5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or
metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revive \Re*vive"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- +
vivere to live. See {Vivid}.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live
anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings
xvii. 22.
2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity,
neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in
the fifteenth century.
3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a
metal.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
294 Moby Thesaurus words for "revive":
abet, accommodate, activate, adapt, adjust, aid, alter, ameliorate,
animate, arouse, assist, avail, awake, awaken, bail out,
be begotten, be born, be changed, be converted into, be incarnated,
be renewed, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, better, bottom out,
bounce back, brace, brace up, break, break up, breathe life into,
brighten up, bring around, bring back, bring to, bring to mind,
brisk, brisken, brush up, buck up, call back, call to mind,
call up, change, checker, cheer, cheer up, chirk up, chop,
chop and change, come about, come again, come alive, come around,
come back, come into being, come into existence, come round,
come to, come to life, come up smiling, comfort, conjure up,
convert, copy, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate,
ditto, diverge, diversify, do a repeat, do again, do good, do over,
doctor, double, duplicate, ease, echo, energize, enliven, evoke,
exhilarate, favor, fillip, fit, fix, flop, fortify, fresh up,
freshen, freshen up, furbish, furbish up, gain, galvanize,
get about, get back, get over, get well, give a boost, give a hand,
give a lift, give help, go back, go back over, hark back,
haul around, help, imitate, improve, infuse life into, invigorate,
jazz up, jibe, lend a hand, lend one aid, light up, live again,
look back, make a comeback, make over, meliorate, mind, mitigate,
modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, parrot, perk up, pick up,
pique, plagiarize, polish, polish up, proffer aid, protect,
provoke, pull round, pull through, qualify, quicken, quote, rally,
ransom, re-create, re-form, reactivate, realign, reanimate,
rebuild, recall, recall to life, recall to mind, recapture,
recharge, reclaim, recollect, reconstitute, reconstruct, recoup,
recover, recreate, recruit, recuperate, redeem, redesign, redo,
redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, reevoke, refashion,
refit, reflect, reform, refound, refresh, refreshen, regain,
regale, regenerate, regurgitate, reheat the ashes, reincarnate,
reinspire, reinstate, reinstitute, reinvigorate, reissue,
rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, relight, remake, remedy, remember,
render assistance, renew, renovate, reoccupy, reopen, reorganize,
repair, repeat, replevin, replevy, repossess, reprint, reproduce,
rescue, reshape, restore, restructure, resume, resurge, resurrect,
resuscitate, retake, retouch, retrace, retrieve, retrospect,
return to life, revamp, review, review in retrospect, revindicate,
revise, revitalize, revivify, rewarm, ring the changes, rise again,
rub up, save, say again, see in retrospect, see the light, set up,
sharpen, shift, shift the scene, shine, shuffle the cards, spruce,
spruce up, stimulate, stir the embers, subvert, succor, summon up,
survive, swerve, tack, take a turn, take back, take heart,
take in tow, think back, think of, tone up, touch up, turn,
turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale,
turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change,
use hindsight, vamp, vamp up, vary, veer, vitalize, vivify,
wake up, waken, warm over, warm up, warp, weather the storm, whet,
work a change, worsen
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