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Reviving   /rɪvˈaɪvɪŋ/  /rivˈaɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Reviving

adjective
1.
Tending to impart new life and vigor to.  Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing.


Revive

verb
(past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)
1.
Cause to regain consciousness.  Synonym: resuscitate.
2.
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"
3.
Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength.
4.
Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state.  Synonym: resurrect.  "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
5.
Return to consciousness.  Synonyms: come to, resuscitate.  "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"





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"Reviving" Quotes from Famous Books



... he, let me judge of that, as well as you, Pamela. These ladies know a good part of your story; and, let me tell you, what they know is more to your credit than mine; so that if I have no averseness to reviving the occasion, you may very well bear it. Said he, I will put you out of your pain, Pamela: here it is: and took ...
— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson
... extension of the territories of the Duchy of Warsaw, under the treaty of Schoenbrunn. This alarmed the court of St. Petersburg, by reviving the notion of Polish independence, and Buonaparte was in vain urged to give his public guarantee that no national government should be re-established in ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart
... and those churches are not blessed with the presence and favor of the Holy Ghost, they need not be at any loss for the reason. And if they should never again, while they continue in this state, be blessed with the reviving influence of God's Spirit, they need not be at any loss for the reason. Their own members are exerting a strong and fatal influence against it; and that too after Divine Providence has shown them what they are doing. And in many such cases there is awful guilt with regard ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society
... her senses, partly from the effects of cold water sprinkled upon her face by the tender-hearted Juanita, and perhaps there might be something reviving in a soft kiss that the young seaman could not avoid dropping upon her lips as he supported her in his arms. I have already intimated my incompetency to describe a parting scene between two lovers, for reasons then specified: ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... patron of archery to whom all who have read Two Little Savages must be eternally grateful. Not only has he given us a reviving touch of the outdoors, but he puts the bow and arrow in its true setting, a ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope


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