revive

Verb

• return to consciousness
  • The patient came to quickly
    
  • She revived after the doctor gave her an injection
    

• restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
  • He revived this style of opera
    
  • He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina
    

• be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
  • Interest in ESP revived
    

• give new life or energy to
  • A hot soup will revive me
    
  • This will renovate my spirits
    
  • This treatment repaired my health
    

• cause to regain consciousness
  • The doctors revived the comatose man
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  come to , resuscitate , resurrect , animate , recreate , reanimate , renovate , repair , quicken , vivify , revivify