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revive (rɪˈvaɪv)

—vb
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.	(tr) to take up again: he revived his old hobby
6.	to bring or come back to mind
7.	(tr) theatre to mount a new production of (an old play)

[C15: from Old French revivre to live again, from Latin revīvere, from re- + vīvere to live; see vivid]

re'vivable

—*adj*

reviva'bility

—n

re'vivably

—*adv*

re'viver

—n

re'viving

—*adj*

re'vivingly

—*adv*

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