REVIVE

animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”

resuscitate, revive

(verb) cause to regain consciousness; “The doctors revived the comatose man”

revive, resurrect

(verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; “He revived this style of opera”; “He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina”

revive

(verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; “Interest in ESP revived”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

revive (third-person singular simple present revives, present participle reviving, simple past and past participle revived)

(intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

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

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

(transitive) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

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

(transitive) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

(intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

(transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

Synonyms

• rediscover

• resurrect

• renew

Source: Wiktionary

Re*vive", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

Re*vive", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]

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.)

Definition: To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition