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Reviving   /rɪvˈaɪvɪŋ/  /rivˈaɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Reviving

adjective
1.
Tending to impart new life and vigor to.  Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing.


Revive

verb
(past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)
1.
Cause to regain consciousness.  Synonym: resuscitate.
2.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"
3.
Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength.
4.
Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state.  Synonym: resurrect.  "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
5.
Return to consciousness.  Synonyms: come to, resuscitate.  "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"





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"Reviving" Quotes from Famous Books



... impending aspect; yet they all avoided us, except when once I poked my nose out of the veil, there struck me such a stifling and choking stench as would have ended me had he not saved me out of hand with the reviving water. When I had recovered, I could see that we were come to a halt, for in all that stupenduous chasm no sooner stay were possible, so sheer and slippery was it. There my Guide allowed me once more to rest; and during that respite it chanced that the thunder and the fierce whirlwinds were a ...
— The Visions of the Sleeping Bard • Ellis Wynne
... within a short half-hour of midnight when she tripped lightly down the stairs, and was soon across the stile which led to the deserted chapel of Windleshaw. Attracted by the beauty and the reviving freshness of all around her, fearing no evil and conscious of no alarm, she proceeded, wandering without aim or purpose into the ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... "do you remember how absorbed, so that it was a very part of her being, the heroine of that story became in the problem of reviving the splendid mummy? She forgot everything in that, and could not think of marriage until the test was made and its sequel satisfactory. She was not faithless; she was simply helpless under an irresistible influence. I'm afraid, love"—and here the tears ...
— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo
... of the territories of the Duchy of Warsaw, under the treaty of Schoenbrunn. This alarmed the court of St. Petersburg, by reviving the notion of Polish independence, and Buonaparte was in vain urged to give his public guarantee that no national government should be re-established in the ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart
... and devoted a whole minute to studying her own reflection from the point of view of Captain Erskine Fanshawe of unknown address. By her own deliberate choice she had cut herself off from future chance of meeting this acquaintance of an hour; nevertheless it was distinctly reviving to discern that her hat was set at precisely the right angle, and that for an all-night voyager her whole appearance was remarkably ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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