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/rɪvˈaɪvɪŋ/ /rivˈaɪvɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Revive v. t.

1.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. "Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived."

2.

To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. "Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts." "Your coming, friends, revives me."

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. "Revive the libels born to die." "The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had."

5.

(Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Revive v. i. (past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)

1.

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. "The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived."

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.

adjective

Reviving adj., n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

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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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