REVIVING

renewing, restorative, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising

(adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to; “the renewing warmth of the sunshine”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

reviving

present participle of revive

Noun

reviving (plural revivings)

A revival; a bringing back to life.

I believe I may venture to say that I am not [mistaken] that where the divine life is implanted by the Spirit of the living God, that life admits of decrease and increase, admits of dreadful decays, and also of some blessed revivings.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*viv"ing, a. & n.

Definition: Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton.

– Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

REVIVE

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



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6 July 2025

AUTHORITARIAN

(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience; “the timid child of authoritarian parents”; “insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter”


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