Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To impart new life, energy, or spirit to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restore to life after actual or apparent death.
- To give new vigor or animation to; enliven again.
- In chem., to purify, as a substance that has been used as a reagent in a chemical process, so that it can be used again in the same way.
- Synonyms See list under
revive . - In chem., to become efficient a second time as a reagent, without special chemical treatment, as by oxidation in the air, fermentation, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to revive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
reanimate , bring back to life. - verb To
reinvigorate orrevitalize . - verb chemistry To
reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give new life or energy to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda Mark Cassello 2010
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The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda Mark Cassello 2010
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Reuse, revivify and be local With dining tables, I prefer antiques or recycling a client's existing piece.
Monastic Fantastic Jen Renzi 2011
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The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda Mark Cassello 2010
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A scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue their arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse.
"Steampunk" Anthology, Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer 2009
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But the narrative for the film is based in fact, tracing Dan's real journey to Ukraine and telling the story of his attempt to revivify his ancestor's Zorokovich vodka distillery by rebranding it for western markets.
Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit Stuart Jeffries 2010
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But maybe by this token Cooke is to be admired for his risk-taking and for bravely trying to revivify a painterly figurative tradition that stretches from Rembrandt through to Bacon.
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Not only did Orwell write Animal Farm to revivify Stalinism's monstrous orchestrations of terror and deception; he reported them "on the ground" in the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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But maybe by this token Cooke is to be admired for his risk-taking and for bravely trying to revivify a painterly figurative tradition that stretches from Rembrandt through to Bacon.
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The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda Mark Cassello 2010
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