Definition

Verb: 1. To return to consciousness or life; to regain strength or vitality. This refers to the act of becoming conscious again after fainting or being unconscious, or the act of something becoming active, strong, or popular again. 2. To restore to consciousness, life, strength, or use. This refers to the action of causing someone or something to become conscious, active, strong, or popular again.

Examples of Usage

• Intransitive Verb (to become active/conscious again):
  • After drinking some water, she began to revive.
  • The patient revived after receiving emergency treatment.
  • Interest in classic video games has revived in recent years.
• Transitive Verb (to make something/someone active/conscious again):
  • The paramedics worked to revive the accident victim.
  • A cup of strong coffee will revive me.
  • The company hopes to revive its old brand with a new marketing campaign.

Advanced Usage

• "Revive a memory": To cause a memory to become clear or vivid in one's mind again.
  • The old photograph revived happy memories of my childhood.
• "Revive a tradition": To bring back into practice a custom or tradition that had been discontinued.
  • The village decided to revive the ancient harvest festival.

Variants and Related Words

• Revival (noun): The act or process of reviving; a new presentation of an old play, movie, or style.
  • The city is experiencing an economic revival.
  • They are staging a revival of a famous 1960s musical.
• Revivable (adjective): Capable of being revived.

Synonyms

• Resuscitate: To revive, especially from unconsciousness or apparent death. (More medical/formal)
• Reanimate: To restore to life or activity.
• Reinvigorate: To give new energy or strength to.
• Resurrect: To bring back into use, practice, or attention; to restore to life.
• Renew: To begin again; to make new or as if new again.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Revive" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meaning is typically expressed directly or with prepositions like "from.")

Related Idioms

• "To breathe new life into something": To revive something by providing new energy, ideas, or resources. (This is a common idiom with a meaning similar to "revive.")
  • The new manager breathed new life into the struggling department.

Verb

1. return to consciousness
   • The patient came to quickly
   • She revived after the doctor gave her an injection
2. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
   • He revived this style of opera
   • He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina
3. be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
   • Interest in ESP revived
4. give new life or energy to
   • A hot soup will revive me
   • This will renovate my spirits
   • This treatment repaired my health
5. cause to regain consciousness
   • The doctors revived the comatose man