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Revive   /rɪvˈaɪv/  /rivˈaɪv/   Listen
verb
Revive  v. t.  
1.
To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. "Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived."
2.
To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. "Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts." "Your coming, friends, revives me."
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."
5.
(Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.


Revive  v. i.  (past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)  
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."
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.





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"Revive" Quotes from Famous Books



... of rope lashed round the coop, and with this I at once made the mate fast to it, raising his head well up, and shouting in his ears to revive him. ...
— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson
... able to reconstruct an extinct monster from the inspection of a single bone; but it is a harder task to revive the figure of a man, even by the aid of these family testimonies, this self-analysis, the diligence of countless interviewers of all nationalities, and indiscretion of a friend like Edmond de Goncourt (who seems to have acted on the theory that it is the whole duty of man ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... it to understand John not having learnt wisdom from his two previous failures to live with his sister. But, in seeking tactfully to revive his memory, she ran up against such an ingrained belief in the superiority of his own kith and kin that she was baffled, and could only fold her hands and ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... very evanescent period of revolutionary excitement. You scorned my adjurations, but at all events you had the grace not to append your true name to those truculent effusions. In literature, if literature revive in France, we two are henceforth separated. But I do not forego the friendly interest I took in you in the days when you were so continually in my house. My wife, who liked you so cordially, implored ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the east there shone a flush of light, not yet strong enough to dim the stars. The sky above her was clear. The pall of smoke rolled away. The air felt clean and fresh, even had in it a reminiscence of the green fields whence it had come. She began to revive, like a sleeper shaking off drowsiness and the spell of a bad dream and looking forward to the new day. The fog that had swathed and stupefied her brain seemed to have lifted. At her heart there was numbness and a dull throbbing, an ache; but her mind was clear and her body ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips


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