Crossword clues for revive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revive \Re*vive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.
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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. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
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To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. ``Revive the libels born to die.''
--Swift.The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.
--Locke. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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.]
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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. 2 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
(Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. 2 (context transitive English) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
WordNet
v. cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: resuscitate]
give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, 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" [syn: resurrect]
return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, resuscitate]
Wikipedia
Revive may refer to:
- Revive (Steadman album)
- Revive (Bjørn Lynne album)
- Revive Energy Mints, a brand of caffeinated energy candy
- Revive (band), a Christian rock band
- Revival, bringing back to life
- Revive (Mai Kuraki song)
Revive (sometimes styled Rev!ve) was a Christian rock band based out of Atlanta, Georgia, which consisted of Dave Hanbury, Rich Thompson, Tyler Hall, and Michael Wright. Formed in 2004, they had success throughout Australia, releasing two albums, as well as supporting Third Day on a national tour in January 2007. The band then relocated to America to pursue their career in Christian music. In August 2009, it was announced that Tyler Hall would be leaving the band on 4 September. He was replaced by Nevertheless guitarist, AJ Cheek. Revive was featured in the 2010 Winter Jam tour along with several other Christian artists and bands such as Tenth Avenue North, Third Day, Robert Pierre, The Newsboys and more. In the fall of 2010, Revive teamed up with Hawk Nelson, Britt Nicole, and John Reuben on the "Fly Me To The Show" Tour. On 25 October 2010, Mike Tenkate officially announced that he would be leaving the band at the end of 2010. With the start of 2011 the newest member Michael Wright out of Nashville came on board to fulfill the drumming position. Shortly to follow came one of Revive's last national extents with Building429 on their "Listen to the Sound" tour with opening artist Anthem Lights.
On 3 July 2011, Revive announced on their website that they had decided to finish their nearly 10-year-long adventure, and that they were saying farewell to the band.
"Revive (Say Something)" is the second single from British dance group LuvBug featuring uncredited vocals from British singer Mark Asari. It was released as a digital download on 8 February 2015 in the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "revive".
And he hit Polk County under the jaw and knocked him clean acrost the yard into a rain barrel amongst the rooins of which he reposed till he was rescued and revived some hours later.
Tourism had taken over during the Affluence, but the Chaos had revived the classical way of life.
Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.
Here half a dozen young architects who had apprenticed themselves to Sangallo were working on plans for broadening the piazzas, building bridges over the Tiber, constructing new academies, hospitals, churches: the plans originally conceived by Sixtus IV, who had built the Sistine Chapel, neglected by Alexander VI, now revived and expanded by Julius, nephew of Sixtus.
The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.
Controls had taken hold of and revived, or to impose burthensome charges.
With Lafayette occupied at the front and the complaisant Petion rather than the fretful Bailly as mayor, the militant press and the popular clubs quickly revived their following in the spring of 1792.
Mayor Joe Carollo has grandiose dreams for reviving the bayfront lagoon area by the Marine Stadium: hotels, restaurants, shops and a Jet Ski extravaganza that would bring needed lease revenues to City Hall.
The girl was a devoted horsewoman and with the feel of the horse under her, her spirits revived and she drew in a long breath of the fragrant night.
It was the first time that the young artist sang in this work of Gounod, which had not been transferred to the Opera and which was revived at the Opera Comique after it had been produced at the old Theatre Lyrique by Mme.
But those old instincts of caution Mankin developed working in enemy territory had abruptly revived.
To revive her spirits and to quicken her memory, Israel had taken her to walk in the fields outside the town where she had loved to play in her childhood--the wild places covered with the peppermint and the pink, the thyme, the marjoram, and the white broom, where she had gathered flowers in the old times, when God had taught her.
Rumors of an exceedingly uncomplimentary character, that had measurably died out with time, were suddenly revived against Mrs.
It is the tag of that first strategic maneuveremblem, metonym, the name people revive every time history rounds up its usual innocents.
They had it to keep, to slice up with a microtome, even to revive, if anyone had the strong guts.