revive
/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯v/ verb, noun
Forms revives reviving revived revivest revivedst reviveth
- verb To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness. “Her grandmother said that if she lost consciousness, she would not want to be revived.”
- verb To bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.
- verb To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize. “The Manx language has been revived after dying out, and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.”
- verb To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.
- verb To renew (something) in one's or people's memories or minds; to bring back (something) to (public) attention; to reawaken. “The Harry Potter books and films revived the world’s interest in wizardry.”
- verb To make (something which has become faded or unclear) clear or fresh again; to refresh.
- verb (chemistry, historical) To restore (a metal (especially mercury) or other substance in a compound or mixture) to its pure or unmixed state. “to revive a metal after calcination”
- verb (law, chiefly historical) To give new validity to (a law or legal instrument); to reenact, to revalidate.
- noun (obsolete) Synonym of revival (“an act of reviving, or a state of being revived (in various senses)”).
Synonyms
rescue reanimate resurrect reestablish refresh reinvigorate renew revivify rally rekindle revival resuscitate animate recreate renovate repair quicken vivify come to
Antonyms
Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, the present active infinitive of revīvō (“to live again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + vīvō (“to be alive, survive; to live”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak.
- verb Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- verb To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
- verb To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Etymology [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.]
Etymology [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “revive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details