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REVIVE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Example:

She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

Synonyms:

come to; resuscitate; revive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give new life or energy to

Example:

This treatment repaired my health

Synonyms:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to regain consciousness

Example:

The doctors revived the comatose man

Synonyms:

resuscitate; revive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

Cause:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revive"):

boot; bring up; reboot (cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes)

raise; resurrect; upraise (cause to become alive again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

Example:

He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina

Synonyms:

resurrect; revive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revive"):

republish (revive (a cancelled will or a libel))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

revival (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

Example:

Interest in ESP revived

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "revive" is one way to...):

boom; expand; flourish; thrive (grow vigorously)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

revival (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was the safe place for the battle that revived itself under Martin's eyelids.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How we bathed our poor bodies in its delicious warmth, reviving like bugs and crawling things after a storm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee cup himself; and she seized the opportunity of saying: Is your sister at Pemberley still?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We moistened the parched lips, and the patient quickly revived.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Within a couple of minutes, the liquid revived the bacteria, which produced enough electrons to power a light-emitting diode and a calculator.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Eggs of crustaceans and caviar of African toothcarp fish also managed to survive in outer space for 2.5 years, with the embryos revived after returning to Earth.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Yahoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Catherine's spirits revived as they drove from the door; for with Miss Tilney she felt no restraint; and, with the interest of a road entirely new to her, of an abbey before, and a curricle behind, she caught the last view of Bath without any regret, and met with every milestone before she expected it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Marine life researchers from the UK and Australia are using the sounds of healthy sea life to attract fish and plankton, hoping to get them to help revive dying swaths of the Great Barrier Reef.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)