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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revived
adjective
1: restored to consciousness or life or vigor; "felt revived hope" [ant: {unrevived}]
2: given fresh life or vigor or spirit; "stirred by revived hopes" [syn: {reanimated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "revived": altered, animated, better, changeable, changed, converted, degenerate, deviant, divergent, energized, exhilarated, improved, invigorated, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, new, qualified, reanimated, reappearing, reborn, rebuilt, recharged, recollected, recreated, recrudescent, redivivus, reexperienced, reformed, refreshed, regenerated, reinvigorated, relived, remembered, reminiscent, renascent, renewed, restored, resurgent, resurrected, retrospective, revolutionary, stimulated, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worse
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