revive
Meanings
- To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
- To bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.
- To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
- To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.
- To renew (something) in one's or people's memories or minds; to bring back (something) to (public) attention; to reawaken.
- To make (something which has become faded or unclear) clear or fresh again; to refresh.
- To restore (a metal (especially mercury) or other substance in a compound or mixture) to its pure or unmixed state.
- To give new validity to (a law or legal instrument); to reenact, to revalidate.
- To put on a new production of (a musical, play, or other stage performance; also, a film or television programme).
- To bring (someone) back to a state of health or vigour.
- To rerun (an election).
- To recover from a faint; to return to a state of consciousness.
- Synonym of revival (“an act of reviving, or a state of being revived (in various senses)”).
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Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, the present active infinitive of revīvō (“to live again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + vīvō (“to be alive, survive; to live”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)). The noun is derived from the verb.