Definitions of revive [ɪˈvaɪv]

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Definition of 'revive'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) revive
to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew.

2.  revive
to restore to life or consciousness.

3.  revive
to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.

4.  revive
to make operative or valid again.

5.  revive
to bring back into notice, use, or currency:
to revive an old word.

6.  revive
to renew in the mind; recall.

7.  revive
to reanimate or cheer.

8. (v.i.) revive
to return to life, consciousness, vigor, or strength.

9.  revive
to be quickened, restored, or renewed.

10.  revive
to become operative or valid again.

Etymology: (1375–1425; < L revīvere to live again =re-re -+vīvere to live)

Definition of 'revive'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) resuscitate, revive
cause to regain consciousness
"The doctors revived the comatose man"

2. (verb) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

3. (verb) revive
be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
"Interest in ESP revived"

4. (verb) revive, resurrect
restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
"He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

5. (verb) come to, revive, resuscitate
return to consciousness
"The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

Definition of 'revive'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) revive
to become or make conscious again
Doctors successfully revived her.; The girl revived and was taken to the hospital.

2. revive
to feel or make feel better
A rest was all she needed to revive her.

3. revive
to make exist again or be more lively or successful again
Their hopes for winning revived.; new marketing strategies to revive sales

Definition of 'revive'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) revive
to return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated

2. (verb) revive
hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century

3. (verb) revive
to recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal

4. (verb) revive
to restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate

5. (verb) revive
to raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension

6. (verb) revive
hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning

7. (verb) revive
to renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken

8. (verb) revive
to restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination

Translation of 'revive'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to come, or bring, back to consciousness, strength, health etc They attempted to revive the woman who had fainted; She soon revived; The flowers revived in water; to revive someone's hopes.
Afrikaans: verfris, herstel	Arabic: يُنْعِش، يُحْيي	Bulgarian: свестявам се
Brazilian: reanimar(-se)	Czech: vzkřísit (se)	German: wiederbeleben
Danish: genoplive; live op igen;	Greek: ξαναζωντανεύω	Spanish: reanimar
Estonian: elustama	Farsi: زنده کردن؛ احیا کردن	Finnish: elvyttää
French: ranimer, rétablir	Hebrew: לְהַחֲיוֹת	Hindi: फिर जीवित करना
Croatian: oživiti, vratiti u život	Hungarian: feléleszt, magához tér(ít	Indonesian: menyadarkan
Icelandic: lífga við; endurvekja	Italian: rianimare, riprendersi	Japanese: 回復させる
Korean: 되살아나게 하다	Lithuanian: atgaivinti, atgyti, atsig	Latvian: atdzīvināt; atdzīvoties
Malay: kembali sedar atau kuat	Dutch: weer bijbrengen, bijkomen	Norwegian: komme til bevissthet; gje
Polish: ocucić, przyjść do siebie	Persian: زنده کردن؛ احیا کردن	Pashto: اخيستل، بياقوت اخيستل، ژو
Portuguese: reanimar(-se)	Romanian: a-şi reveni	Russian: приходить/приводить в соз
Slovak: oživiť; vzkriesiť	Slovenian: priti/spraviti k sebi; ož	Serbian: oživeti
Swedish: återuppliva, åter få liv	Thai: ฟื้นคืนสติ	Turkish: ayıl(t)mak, canlan(dır)ma
Taiwanese: 救活，使甦醒	Ukrainian: приводити до пам'яті; від	Urdu: ہوش میں لانا
Vietnamese: sống lại; tỉnh lại	Chinese: 复活，苏醒
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