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
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
• 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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
