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Revive

verb

(past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)

Cause to regain consciousness. Synonym: resuscitate.

Give new life or energy to. Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify. "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"

Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength.

Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state. Synonym: resurrect. "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

Return to consciousness. Synonyms: come to, resuscitate. "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

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"Revive" Quotes from Famous Books

... "It must revive and delight her to have Roxana for a sister!" cried Pollux; but his pretty companion shook her head and said: "She is always so odd; what most delights me is ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Gex, standing upon the thick Turkey hearthrug with his cigar between his lips, watched me closely. Apparently he was considerably perturbed at my sudden illness, for he expressed regret, hoping that the brandy would revive me. ...

— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... and taking a little more pains than usual with their supper in an effort to revive their spirits as well as their tired bodies, Ned and Alan spread their blankets at the edge of a pine grove. Almost before it was dark ...

— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler

... the individual is the cause and reason of the organization of the State. Not that our country is a Moloch on whose altar lives may lawfully be sacrificed. The rigidity of antique morals and the despotism of the Caesars suggested the false principle—and modern militarism tends to revive it—that the State is omnipotent, and that the discretionary power of the State is the rule of right. Not so, replies Christian theology; right is peace—that is, the interior order of a nation, founded upon ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me, Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

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