revive

Verb

Verb Forms: revived, reviving, revives

• To bring back to life, consciousness, or vigor.
• cause to regain consciousness
  • "The doctors revived the comatose man"
• give new life or energy to
  • "A hot soup will revive me"
• be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
  • "Interest in ESP revived"
• restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
  • "He revived this style of opera"
• return to consciousness
  • "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
• To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
• To return (someone or something) to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.
• To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
• To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again.
• To raise (someone) from cardiac arrest, coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
• To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
• To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal)
• To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

Examples

• A well-placed ’QUIXOTRY’ could revive his chances of winning the game.
• Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
• Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness.
• The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.
• The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry
• The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.
• This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room.
• to revive a metal after calcination

Synonyms

animate, come to, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, resurrect, resuscitate, revivify, vivify, rediscover, refresh, rekindle, renew, revamp

Antonyms

deanimate, devitalize, devive

Related Words

revivification, survival, survive, vivification, vivify