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verb (used with object)
1.
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
2.
to restore to life or consciousness: We revived him with artificial respiration.
3.
to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.
4.
to make operative or valid again.
5.
to bring back into notice, use, or currency: to revive a subject of discussion.
verb (used without object)
9.
to return to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, or a flourishing condition.
10.
to recover from financial depression.
11.
to be quickened, restored, or renewed, as hope, confidence, suspicions, or memories.
12.
to return to notice, use, or currency, as a subject, practice, or doctrine.
13.
to become operative or valid again.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English reviven < Latin revīvere to live again, equivalent to re- re- + vīvere to live, be alive; cf. vital
1375–1425; late Middle English reviven < Latin revīvere to live again, equivalent to re- re- + vīvere to live, be alive; cf. vital
Related forms
re·viv·a·ble, adjective
re·viv·a·bil·i·ty, noun
re·viv·a·bly, adverb
re·viv·er, noun
re·viv·ing·ly, adverb
Synonyms
1, 4. reactivate. 2. revitalize, reanimate, resuscitate. 6. rouse, refresh.
1, 4. reactivate. 2. revitalize, reanimate, resuscitate. 6. rouse, refresh.
Antonyms
2. kill.
2. kill.
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revive (rɪˈvaɪv) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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'vivable | |
| —adj | |
| reviva'bility | |
| —n | |
| re'vivably | |
| —adv | |
| re'viver | |
| —n | |
| re'viving | |
| —adj | |
| re'vivingly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
revive
early 15c., from M.Fr. revivre (10c.), from L. revivere "to live again," from re- "again" + vivere "to live" (see vital).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
revive re·vive (rĭ-vīv')
v. re·vived, re·viv·ing, re·vives
To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
To regain health, vigor, or good spirits.
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Example sentences
Next day the wolves bring back the novice dead, and the members of the society have to revive him.
The country's biggest task is to convince foreign investors that its economy will revive without further infusions of credit.
It tried, and later government antipoverty programs tried even more pointedly, to revive the ghettos as communities.
Sceptics fear that these small, cheap reactors will not be enough to revive the nuclear industry.
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