Revive

Definitions: Revive

Revive

Verb

1. Cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man".

2. Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me".

3. Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived".

4. Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera".

5. Return to consciousness: "The patient came to quickly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Revive

Excitation

Fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.

Life

See the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.

Refreshment

Come to oneself; (revive); feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.

Reproduction

Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.

Restoration

Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.

Resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh.

Crosswords: Revive

French (come alive).

When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for thirty thousand years. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

I revive by recalling that scene. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Uma Tradição Que Revive Tapeçaria (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Remember Netscape? AOL Tries to Revive an Icon [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Revive Thy Work (reference)

• Revive Trust in Online Advertising [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Revive Us Again: Your Wake-Up Call for Spiritual Renewal (reference)

• Taking America Back: A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom Morality and Justice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Revive Featuring Luther Barnes: Live (reference)

• Revive Workout (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Revive (reference)

• Trojan Revive Box Set [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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The Allied and Associated Powers undertake among themselves not to revive with Germany any conventions or treaties which are not in accordance with the terms of the present Treaty. (reference)

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Health

Then, in early 1993, heavy snows and rainfall helped drought-stricken plants and animals to revive and grow in larger-than-usual numbers. (references)

Business

In 1999, one of the Korean government's top priorities was to revive the sluggish construction industry including SOC projects and the housing construction market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Romania

In February the Government tried to revive a draft bill on religious denominations, which had been withdrawn by the previous government in February 2000, following domestic and international pressure. (references)

Indonesia

This provision, limits political activity and prohibits groups from seeking to engage in democratic political competition, to make Indonesia an Islamic state, to revive communism, or to reintroduce partisan ideological division into the country. (references)

Nicaragua

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) reported that during 1999, members of the pro-Sandinista Union of Nicaraguan (UPN) and leaders and members of the pro-liberal Association of Nicaraguan Journalists (APN) attempted to revive legislation to establish a professional journalists' guild. (references)

Economic History

Liberia

However, the law is often ignored and the Ministry of Finance attempts to revive the law at convenient times. (references)

Slovakia

The Slovak national revival was begun in the 19 century by intellectuals seeking to revive the Slovak language and culture. (references)

Kenya

Import duty on imported timber and cotton seeds was waived to discourage massive logging and revive cotton growing, respectively. (references)

Political Economy

HAITI

Resolution of Haiti's political crisis could unleash forces that could expand Haitian exports, revive the formal sector and improve prospects for foreign trade and investment. (references)

EGYPT

The business and investment communities look to the Egyptian authorities to revive economic growth through a comprehensive integrated government strategy to address key policy areas and reinvigorate the country's program of structural reform. (references)

Sudan

Reforms beginning in the early 1990's aimed at privatizing state-run firms and stimulating private investment failed to revive a moribund economy that maintains massive military expenditures and a large foreign debt of approximately $21.5 billion. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

On March 31, the NCA sponsored a conference to revive the constitutional reform process. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "revive": revive smb.'s sprits ♦ to revive. Additional references.

Albanian

rilind (regenerate, rise), rigjallëroj, vij në vete (collect oneself, come around, come to, wake up), sjell në vete, ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, exalt, excite, feed up, heal, incur, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, sow, wake, whet), kthej në jetë, gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize), ‏نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), ‏عاد إلى الوعي, ‏إنتعش (be revived, brisk, come alive, pep up, perk up, pull oneself together, rally, recover, refresh, restart, resuscitate), ‏إستعاد قوات (rally, refresh, regain), ‏إستعاد ذهنيا, ‏إزدهر من جديد, ‏أحيا (enliven, inspirit, renovate, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize), ‏أصبح رائج, ‏أجج (inflame, kindle, rekindle), ‏رفع المعنويات (lift, moralize, spirit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съживявам (animate, awake, enliven, galvanize, pull round, raise, rally, reanimate, regenerate, renovate, resurrect, resuscitate, revivify, wake), свестявам се, възстановявам (fix up, furbish, get better, give back, make good, mend, re establish, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, reedify, re-enact, regenerate, reinstate, renovate, repair, restore, revivify), възраждам (renew), възкресявам (raise from the dead, resurrect, resuscitate, wake), идвам на себе си (come back, come to life again, re-collect). (various references)

Chinese 

蘇 (place name), 穌 (early-planted late-ripening grain), 甦 , 复兴 (revival, revived, reviving). (various references)

Czech

vyvolávat (call out, call over, give rise to), obnovit (give back, re establish, rebuild, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, renovate, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve, revamp, rub up), oživnout, oživit (animate, brighten up, enliven, inspirit, jazz, liven, quicken, reanimate, recapture, regenerate, rejuvenate, retrieve, spirit, vitalize, vivify), budit (draw). (various references)

Danish

paa ny saette i kraft (to revive). (various references)

Dutch

opleven, herrijzen, herrýzen, herleven. (various references)

Esperanto

reviviĝi. (various references)

Farsi 

نیروی تازه دادن , زنده شدن (Liven, Quicken), احیاکردن (Reconstruct, Resurrect), احیاشدن , دوباره رواج پیداکردن , دوباره دایرشدن , بهوش امدن (Recover, Recovery, Respire), بازجان بخشیدن . (various references)

Finnish

virvoittaa (invigorate, refresh, resuscitate), virota (be resuscitated, be revived, recover consciousness), vilkastuttaa (animate, enliven, make lively), herättää eloon, elvyttää jälleen, elvyttää (animate, enliven, quicken, restore, resuscitate, stimulate), elpyä (pick up, rally, recover). (various references)

French

ranimer (reanimate, rekindle, relight). (various references)

German

wiederbeleben (recreate, resurrect, resusciate, resuscitate, revival, revivify, to resusciate, to resuscitate, to revive, to revivify). (various references)

Greek 

αναβιώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחדש (furbish, innovate, modernize, refurbish, renew), להתחיות (be revived), להקים לתחיה (resurrect), להחיות (animate, enliven, freshen, liven, quicken, refresh, resuscitate, vitalize). (various references)

Hungarian

felvirágoztat (to revive), feléleszt (to bring round, to rally, to resuscitate, to revitalize, to revive, to vivify), feléled (resuscitate, to come to life, to rally, to rebound, to rekindle, to resuscitate, to revive, to wake), újjáéleszt (revitalize, to resuscitate). (various references)

Indonesian

menyadarkan (make someone realize), menafasi (resuscitate). (various references)

Italian

rivivere (live again, relive), risvegliare (arouse, awaken, rouse, stir up, wake, wake up), risuscitare (resurrect, resuscitate, rise again), risorgere (rise again), riprendersi (perk up, rally, recuperate), rinvenire (come to, discover, find, find out, recover one's senses), rinascere, rimettere in uso, ricreare (recreate, relax), rianimarsi (perk up, resuscitate), rianimare (cheer up, enliven, quicken, rally, reanimate, recover oneself, refresh, resuscitate, take heart again, wake), ravvivare (animate, brighten, enliven, liven, refresh, revitalise, revitalize, smarten), tornare in vita, far rivivere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

再映 (rerun, reshow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいえい (rerun, reshow). (various references)

Korean 

부흥시키십시요. (various references)

Manx

dooishtey (evocation, evoke, reveille, rouse), cheet hug, aavioghey (enlivenment, rally, regenerate, renaissance, resurrect, resurrection, resuscitation, revival). (various references)

Pig Latin

eviveray

Portuguese

reviver (freshen, relive, revivify, wake), ressuscitar (get-at-able, resurrect, resuscitate, rise, wake), renovar-se (renew), renascer (rebirth), redespertar, recuperar os sentidos, voltar à vida, fazer surgir novamente, entrar de novo em voga. (various references)

Romanian

retrãi (experience, relive), renaşte (renew), relua (continue, reassume, recur to, renew, reopen, resume, retake), reînvia (reanimate, resurrect, resuscitate, rip up), reînsufleţi (reanimate, requicken, revivify), dezmorţi (chafe, smarten up, take the chill off), învia (raise, reanimate, resurge, resurrect, resuscitate). (various references)

Russian 

восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, indispose, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, recover, re-create, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, renovate, undelete, unremove). (various references)

Scottish

beothaich (light, re-animate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ponovo izvesti, osvestiti (awake, bring round), oživiti (quicken), oživeti (animate, come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, recuperate, resuscitate, revitalize, vivify). (various references)

Spanish

reponerse (get over, get well, perk up, pull through, recover, recuperate, throw off). (various references)

Swedish

förnya (innovate, novelise, recruit, redintegrate, renew, repeat, revivify), återuppliva (resuscitate, revitalize). (various references)

Turkish

neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, spirit, spirit up, vivify), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), canlanmak (bestir oneself, brighten, brighten up, buck up, come to life, firm, freshen, kick up one's heels, kindle, liven, liven up, perk, perk oneself, perk oneself up, perk up, quicken, refresh, rouse, rouse oneself, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up), dirilmek (arise from dead, resuscitate), diriltmek (animate, bring to life, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revivify, vitalize), gündeme getirmek, hayata döndürmek (bring back to life, quicken, revivify), ayılmak (come round, come to, realize the facts, recover, sober down, sober up), ihya etmek (bring to life, enliven, revivify), yeniden sahnelemek, tasfiye etmek (clear up, close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, pay up, purge, sell off, sell out, try out, wind up), tekrar yayınlamak (rebroadcast, rerun), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, disabuse of, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), uyanmak (awake, awaken, rouse, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up, waken), yeniden canlandırmak (reanimate, revitalize), yeniden oluşturmak (reconstitute), hayata dönmek (resuscitate). (various references)

Turkmen 

janlanmak (come to life). (various references)

Ukranian 

відроджуватися (reappear, regenerate, resurge), відроджувати (regenerate), відновлювати сили (recreate), опритомнювати (resuscitate). (various references)

Welsh

dadebru (resuscitate), atgyfodi (raise again, resurrect, rise again), adfywio, adfywhau (reanimate). (various references)

anima, animantem, animantia, animantibus, animantium, animas, animo, conresurrexistis, convivificavit, novo, recipero, recro, refocilabatur, refocilandam, refocilandum, refocilarent, refocilati, refocilatus, refocilavit, renova, renovabis, renovabit, renovabitur, renovamini, renovantes, renovare, renovaret, renovari, renovata, renovatum, renovatur, renovatus, renovavit, renovetis, reparavit, resipiscant, restituam, restituamque, restituar, restituas, restituatur, restitue, restituens, restituent, restituere, restituerentur, restitueretur, restituerit, restituerunt, restitues, restituet, restituetur, restitui, restituit, restituitque, restituta, restituti, restituturum, restitutus, resurgant, resurgemus, resurgent, resurgere, resurget, resurgunt, resurrecturos, resurrexerint, resurrexerit, resurrexero, resurreximus, resurrexisse, resurrexisset, resurrexistis, resurrexit, revivere, revoca, revocabit, revocabo, revocare, revocata, revocaveruntque, revocavit, revoces, revocet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "revive": revived, reviver, revivers, revives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Revive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devive, erive, pregiven, raiva, ravie, Raviv, recive, redive, reinve, reiv, reive, rerivet, Revava, reveive, revi, revice, revide, revine, revite, revivel, revivve, revixe, revize, revvy, rexive, rivie, Rizivi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: reive, verve.

-2 letters: ever, rive, veer, vier, vive.

-3 letters: ere, eve, ire, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie.

-4 letters: er, re.

+1 letter: revived, reviver, revives, vetiver.

+2 letters: aversive, overlive, overview, revivers, vetivers, vetivert.

+3 letters: inversive, overdrive, overlived, overlives, overviews, pervasive, revivable, revulsive, vetiverts, voiceover.

+4 letters: aversively, derivative, overactive, overdriven, overdrives, perversive, preventive, renovative, revivified, revivifies, subversive, vivandiere, voiceovers.

+5 letters: adversative, derivatives, deverbative, evaporative, overachieve, overservice, overviolent, pervasively, preventives, reviviscent, sempervivum, subversives, vivandieres.

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