revive

Meaning

Verb

  • To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • To return 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 from 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

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Origin

  • From Middle English reviven, revyven, from Old French revivre and Latin revīvō, from re- + vīvō.

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