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Revive

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Verb

1. resuscitate, revive

cause to regain consciousness

Example Sentences:
'The doctors revived the comatose man'

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

give new life or energy to

Example Sentences:
'A hot soup will revive me'
'This will renovate my spirits'
'This treatment repaired my health'

3. revive

be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

Example Sentences:
'Interest in ESP revived'

4. resurrect, revive

restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

Example Sentences:
'He revived this style of opera'
'He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina'

5. come to, resuscitate, revive

return to consciousness

Example Sentences:
'The patient came to quickly'
'She revived after the doctor gave her an injection'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Revive

see synonyms of revive
verb
1. 
to bring or be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; resuscitate or be resuscitated
revived by a drop of whisky
2. 
to give or assume new vitality; flourish again or cause to flourish again
3. 
to make or become operative or active again
the youth movement was revived
4. 
to bring or come into use or currency again
to revive a language
5. (transitive)
to take up again
he revived his old hobby
6. 
to bring or come back to mind
7. (transitive) theatre
to mount a new production of (an old play)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Revive

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verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: reˈvived or reˈviving
1. 
to come or bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate
2. 
to come or bring back to a healthy, vigorous, or flourishing condition after a decline
3. 
to come or bring back into use or attention
4. 
to become or make valid, effective, or operative again
5. 
to come or bring to mind again
6. 
to produce (a play) or exhibit (an old film) again after an interval

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Revive

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v. re·vived, re·viv·ing, re·vives
v.tr.
1. To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate: revived the passenger who fainted.
2. To give new health, strength, or spirit to: was revived by the long shower; a speech that revived morale.
3.
a. To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice: revived a fad from the 1980s.
b. To present (an old play, for example) again.
4. To renew in the mind; recall: an experience that revived a bad memory.
v.intr.
1. To return to life or consciousness: The patient revived after the anesthetic wore off.
2. To regain health, vigor, or good spirits: We only revived after the heat wave broke.
3. To return to use, currency, activity, or notice: His interest in sculpture revived late in life.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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