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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Come back to life; revived.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Alive again; renewed; restored.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Living again; revived; restored.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Living again; brought back to life. (Used as a postmodifier.)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin redivīvus, from Latin, renewed : re-, red-, re- + vīvus, living; see vivify.]

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From Latin redivīvus.

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