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Reviving

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Adjective

1. renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving

tending to impart new life and vigor to

Example Sentences:
'the renewing warmth of the sunshine'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Reviving

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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)

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Reviving

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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.

Reviving

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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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