Definitions for revive

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revive re·vive

Spelling: [ri-vahyv]

IPA: /rɪˈvaɪv/

Revive is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in revive (eeirvv).

Definitions for revive

verb (used with object)

1. to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew:
2. to restore to life or consciousness:
3. to put on or show (an old play or motion picture) again.
4. to make operative or valid again.
5. to bring back into notice, use, or currency:
6. to quicken or renew in the mind; bring back:
7. to reanimate or cheer (the spirit, heart, etc., or a person).
8. Chemistry. to restore or reduce to the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.

verb (used without object)

1. to return to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, or a flourishing condition.
2. to recover from financial depression.
3. to be quickened, restored, or renewed, as hope, confidence, suspicions, or memories.
4. to return to notice, use, or currency, as a subject, practice, or doctrine.
5. to become operative or valid again.
6. Chemistry. to recover the natural or uncombined state, as a metal.

Origin of revive

1375-1425; late Middle English reviven Latin revīvere to live again, equivalent to re- re- + vīvere to live, be alive; cf. vital

Examples for revive

My friends, hurting from a night of rum-infused revelry, opt for revive.

Mamoon and his second wife, Liana, hope it will revive his reputation, and “prompt the reissuing of his books in forty languages.”

Scholar-activists Larry Lessig and Zephyr Teachout have recently been working to revive it.

He thought that he must indeed be dying, for how could one who suffered so revive?

I never will revive the remembrance of what is now so painful to me.

It will need the air of heaven to revive its pristine energies.

There was a scarcely disguised intention to revive protection.

A great chef who has fought to revive the old spirit says he fears history may repeat itself.

This year, the groups have continued to fight against attempts to revive the credit.

I advise you not to revive the subject, neither to me nor anybody else.