revive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: revive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for revive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
revive v cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" Synonym(s): resuscitate, revive give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" Synonym(s): animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived" restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina" Synonym(s): revive, resurrect return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" Synonym(s): come to, revive, resuscitate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revive \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See {Vivid}.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revive \Revive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See {Revive}, v. i.] 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. [bd]Revive the libels born to die.[b8] --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.