revive
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
to restore to life or consciousness: We revived him with artificial respiration.
to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.
to make operative or valid again.
to bring back into notice, use, or currency: to revive a subject of discussion.
to quicken or renew in the mind; bring back: to revive memories.
to reanimate or cheer (the spirit, heart, etc., or a person).
Chemistry. to restore or reduce to the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.
to return to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, or a flourishing condition.
to recover from financial depression.
to be quickened, restored, or renewed, as hope, confidence, suspicions, or memories.
to return to notice, use, or currency, as a subject, practice, or doctrine.
to become operative or valid again.
Chemistry. to recover the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.
Origin of revive
1Other words for revive
Opposites for revive
Other words from revive
- 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
- un·re·viv·a·ble, adjective
- un·re·vived, adjective
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How to use revive in a sentence
She’s now working to revive the entire institution of Native Southern Californian tattooing — not just the markings, but the method of hand-tapping them onto skin and the mix of beliefs and traditions within which they were given.
Their bill proposed reviving regulators’ previously stripped authority to analyze Dominion’s books and order rate reductions or refunds.
Inside the Utility Company Lobbying Blitz That Will Hike Electric Bills | by Patrick Wilson, Richmond Times-Dispatch | October 9, 2020 | ProPublicaHowever, outbreaks like the eight cases on the Tennessee Titans just a few weeks into the season are reviving concerns.
How to enjoy fall festivities without spreading COVID-19 | Rachael Zisk | October 7, 2020 | Popular-ScienceSome are reviving virtual activities employed in the spring for the fall like offering storytime Zooms or nannies to Zoom with children while employees are in meetings.
‘Truly integrated’: As an unusual school year commences, agencies are aiming to help working parents more than ever before | Kristina Monllos | September 28, 2020 | DigidayThe new CEO, Johnson, is trying to revive the business through partnerships.
Magic Leap tried to create an alternate reality. Its founder was already in one | Verne Kopytoff | September 26, 2020 | Fortune
He was, especially, a promoter of all good music and an earnest reviver of ancient Scotch melody.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerFernand Thesmar is the great reviver of plique--jour enamelling in France.
Thomas Rickman, the reviver and historian of Gothic architecture, practised as an architect in Birmingham.
It is a striking coincidence, that the same fate was shared by the French reviver; both alike sad examples of disturbed times!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Isaac DisraeliHe's the new kid reviver and polisher for that University you're runnin' here.
Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories | Bret Harte
British Dictionary definitions for revive
/ (rɪˈvaɪv) /
to bring or be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; resuscitate or be resuscitated: revived by a drop of whisky
to give or assume new vitality; flourish again or cause to flourish again
to make or become operative or active again: the youth movement was revived
to bring or come into use or currency again: to revive a language
(tr) to take up again: he revived his old hobby
to bring or come back to mind
(tr) theatre to mount a new production of (an old play)
Origin of revive
1Derived forms of revive
- revivable, adjective
- revivability, noun
- revivably, adverb
- reviver, noun
- reviving, adjective
- revivingly, adverb
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