English Dictionary: revive | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rebuff \Re*buff"\, n. [It. ribuffo, akin to ribuffare to repulse; pref. ri- (L. re-) + buffo puff. Cf. {Buff} to strike, {Buffet} a blow.] 1. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. --Milton. 2. Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rebuff \Re*buff"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rebuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rebuffing}.] To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously. | |
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 \Re*vive"\, 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ribibe \Rib"ibe\, n. [See {Rebec}.] 1. A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] --Nares. 2. An old woman; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. A bawd; a prostitute. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubify \Ru"bi*fy\, v. t. [Cf. F. rub[82]fier. See {Rubific}.] To redden. [R.] [bd]Waters rubifying.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
ripoff n. Synonym for {chad}, sense 1. |