English Dictionary

revive

/ɹɪˈvaɪv/

verb

(intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. / (transitive) To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.

After being unconscious for several minutes, he finally revived.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.

意味（2）

(transitive) To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.

The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.

Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again.

This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room.

意味（5）

(transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

意味（6）

(transitive) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry

意味（7）

(intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal)

意味（8）

(transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

to revive a metal after calcination