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Definition of Revive

1. Verb. Cause to regain consciousness. "The doctors revived the comatose man"

2. Verb. Give new life or energy to. "This treatment repaired my health"

3. Verb. Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength. "Interest in ESP revived"

4. Verb. Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state. "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

5. Verb. Return to consciousness. "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

Definition of Revive

1. v. i. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

2. v. t. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Definition of Revive

1. Verb. (transitive) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. ¹

6. Verb. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Revive

1. to bring back to life or consciousness [v -VIVED, -VIVING, -VIVES]

Medical Definition of Revive

1. 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. "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. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. Origin: F. Revivere, L. Revivere; pref. Re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid. 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." "The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had." (Locke) 5. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. Origin: Cf. F. Reviver. See Revive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Revive

revitalize revitalized revitalizer revitalizers revitalizes revitalizing revivable revival revival meeting revivalism

revivalisms revivalist revivalistic revivalists revivals revive (current term) revived revivement revivements reviver

revivers revives revivescence revivificate revivificated revivificates revivificating revivification revivifications revivified

Literary usage of Revive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"A new promise cannot revive liability in tort. As the remedy of assumpsit was extended to cover cases where л originally debt would have been the ..."

2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... and the sickly among them revive, and become robust and healthy. After the grinding is finished, ..."

3. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"They drink freely of cane- juice, and the sickly among them revive, and become robust and healthy. After the grinding is finished, the negroes have several ..."

4. The Practice of the Court of King's Bench in Personal Actions and Ejectment by John Frederick Archbold (1819)
"Seire Facias to revive a Judgment after a Year and Day. 2. Scire Facias, upon the Death of Parties. 3. Scire Facias, upon the Marriage of Feme Plaintiff or ..."

5. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"CHARLEMAGNE HOW CHARLEMAGNE, THE KING OF THE FRANKS, CAME TO BEAR THE TITLE OF EMPEROR AND TRIED TO revive THE OLD IDEAL OF WORLD-EMPIRE THE battle of ..."

6. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"CHARLEMAGNE HOW CHARLEMAGNE, THE KING OF THE FRANKS, CAME TO BEAR THE TITLE OF EMPEROR AND TRIED TO revive THE OLD IDEAL OF WORLD-EMPIRE THE battle of ..."

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