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 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.