revive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to regain consciousness
    resuscitate.
    • The doctors revived the comatose man
  2. verb give new life or energy to
    repair; revivify; recreate; reanimate; renovate; vivify; animate; quicken.
    • A hot soup will revive me
    • This will renovate my spirits
    • 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
    resurrect.
    • He revived this style of opera
    • He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina
  5. verb return to consciousness
    resuscitate; come to.
    • The patient came to quickly
    • She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

WordNet

Re*vive" intransitive verb
Etymology
F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Revived ; present participle & verbal noun Reviving
Definitions
  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" transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913