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Revive Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Revive?
[v] return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
[v] give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [v] cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [v] restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera" [v] be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived" Synonyms | Synonyms for Revive: come to | resuscitate Related Terms | Find terms related to Revive: See Also | arouse | boom | boot | brace | bring around | bring back | bring round | bring to | bring up | change state | energise | energize | expand | flourish | get ahead | perk up | prosper | raise | reboot | regenerate | rejuvenate | republish | restore | resurrect | stimulate | thrive | turn | upraise Revive In Webster's Dictionary \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- +
vivere to live. See {Vivid}.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live
anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings
xvii. 22.
2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity,
neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in
the fifteenth century.
3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a
metal.
\Re*vive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See {Revive}, v. i.] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. --Bp. Pearson. 2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. --Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. --Milton. 3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. 4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. ``Revive the libels born to die.'' --Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. --Locke. 5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. |
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