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1. Cause to regain consciousness
   "The doctors revived the comatose man";
   - resuscitate
    
2. Give new life or energy to
   "A hot soup will revive me";
   - animate, recreate, reanimate, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
    
3. Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength
   "Interest in ESP revived"
    
4. Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
   "He revived this style of opera";
   - resurrect
    
5. Return to consciousness
   "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection";
   - come to, resuscitate

Derived forms: revived, revives, reviving

Type of: arouse, boom, brace, bring around, bring back, bring round, bring to, change state, energise [Brit], energize, expand, flourish, perk up, regenerate, rejuvenate, restore, stimulate, thrive, turn

Encyclopedia: Revive