verb
- Cause to regain consciousness.
- usage: "The doctors revived the comatose man"
- synonyms: resuscitate, revive
- Give new life or energy to.
- usage: "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
- Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength.
- usage: "Interest in ESP revived"
- synonyms: revive
- Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state.
- usage: "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
- Return to consciousness.
- usage: "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
- synonyms: come to, revive, resuscitate
adjective
- Tending to impart new life and vigor to.
- usage: "the renewing warmth of the sunshine"
- synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, revitalising
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