revive
Verb
(reviv)
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 . 1 Kings xvii. 22.
- The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.
- Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness
To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.
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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
- Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room
To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- The Harry Potter films revived the world’s interest in wizardry
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
- revive a metal after calcination.
Synonyms
* rediscover
* resurrect
* renew
Derived terms
* revival
* revivable
* unrevivable
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rebirth
English
Noun
(en noun )
Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one’s first.
* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:
- A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,
Revival, reinvigoration.
* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :
- And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon’s defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,
Spiritual renewal.
* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:
- The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:
- Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.
See also
* reborn
* reincarnation
* renaissance
* revival
* metempsychosis
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