REVIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revive mean? 

• REVIVE (verb)
  The verb REVIVE has 5 senses:

1. cause to regain consciousness

2. give new life or energy to

3. be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

4. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

5. return to consciousness

  Familiarity information: REVIVE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they revive    ... he / she / it revives   
Past simple: revived   
Past participle: revived   
-ing form: reviving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to regain consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

resuscitate; revive

Context example:

The doctors revived the comatose man

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

Cause:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revive"):

boot; bring up; reboot (cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes)

raise; resurrect; upraise (cause to become alive again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give new life or energy to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify

Context example:

This treatment repaired my health

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Interest in ESP revived

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

boom; expand; flourish; thrive (grow vigorously)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

revival (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

resurrect; revive

Context example:

He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revive"):

republish (revive (a cancelled will or a libel))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

revival (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

come to; resuscitate; revive

Context example:

She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

He put wine to my lips; I tasted it and revived; then I ate something he offered me, and was soon myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From this hour the subject is never to be revived between us.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was extraordinary how their spirits had returned and how the natural colour had revived in their faces.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She presently revived, however, and was really pleased to see me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Elton's rights, however, gradually revived.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Certainly, answered Elinor, without knowing what she said; but after a moment's reflection, she added, with revived security of Edward's honour and love, and her companion's falsehood—Engaged to Mr. Edward Ferrars!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Lady Russell loved them all; but it was only in Anne that she could fancy the mother to revive again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Egyptian officials hope the discovery will help the country's efforts to revive tourism.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)