revive

[Re*vive·]

To revive something is to provide it with new energy or life, like when you revive a drooping plant by watering it, or when you revive a boring party by breaking out the karaoke machine.

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To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

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return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

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give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

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cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man"

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restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

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be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived"

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v. i.
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

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Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

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

v. i.
To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

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

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Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

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

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

Revive

Re*vive" , v. i. [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.

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.

Revive

Re*vive", v. t. [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.

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

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

Your coming, friends, revives me.

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.

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

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Usage Examples

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

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Other Usage Examples

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.