revivere‧vive /rɪˈvaɪv/ ●○○ verb 
Word Origin Examples
Local people have decided to revive this centuries-old tradition.2[intransitive, transitive] to become healthy and strong again, or to make someone or something healthy and strong again → recover: The economy is beginning to revive. an attempt to revive the steel industry The doctors revived her with injections of glucose.3[transitive] to produce a play again after it has not been performed for a long time: A London theatre has decided to revive the 1950s musical ‘In Town’.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINrevive
Verb TableOrigin:
1400-1500 Old French revivre, from Latin revivere ‘to live again’VERB TABLE
revive
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | revive |
| he, she, it | revives | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | revived |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have revived |
| he, she, it | has revived | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had revived |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will revive |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have revived |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am reviving |
| he, she, it | is reviving | |
| you, we, they | are reviving | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was reviving |
| you, we, they | were reviving | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been reviving |
| he, she, it | has been reviving | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been reviving |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be reviving |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been reviving |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- a campaign to revive the tradition of holding a two-minute silence on Armistice Day
- Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but could not revive him.
- Seeing Dan revived all my old feelings of inadequacy.
- The movie revives Ali's reputation as a boxer.
- They are planning to revive the old Saint's Day parades through town.
- An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful.
- Gingrich on Tuesday, for example, began reviving the notion of a balanced budget agreement with President Clinton.
- I did not revive his son.
- Portions or aspects of his earlier self revive.
- The Labour Party will not revive until it can show how to achieve jobs for all who need them.
- The ship's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived.
- To mention him would be to revive an old humiliation.
- Warner Bros is reviving the tradition of Saturday morning children's cinema at its multiplex cinemas.
Longman Language Activatorto start an old law, custom, system etc after a long time► bring back
Collocations to start using a custom, system, law etc again, that was used in the past but then stopped: · Do you think they should bring back the death penalty?· They're talking about bringing back formal grammar teaching.
► reintroduce to start using a law or system again after you had previously stopped using it: · Many people think that student grants should be reintroduced.· They are reintroducing English as the official language in schools throughout the country.
► revive to start or strengthen something such as an old practice, custom, or idea after it had begun to disappear, so that it becomes popular again: · a campaign to revive the tradition of holding a two-minute silence on Armistice Day· They are planning to revive the old Saint's Day parades through town.
► restore to introduce an old law, rule etc that had been completely stopped: · The earlier restrictions on currency exchange have now been restored.
► resurrect to start an old practice, custom, system etc again after it has not existed for a long time, especially because you think that a changed situation makes it necessary or useful again: · Old theories about the origin of the universe have recently been resurrected.· There's a growing drive to resurrect the ancient woodland tradition of charcoal burning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► revive/resurrect your career
1[transitive] to bring something back after it has not been used or has not existed for a period of time: (=make it successful again)· The singer is seeking to revive his pop career.
► lift/raise/revive somebody’s spirits (=make them feel happier)· A brisk walk helped to lift my spirits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► attempt· It was essentially a new attempt to revive the Burkeian fallacy of empire through freedom, obedience through liberty.· Despite desperate attempts to revive her, the trace remained stubbornly flat, until in the end they had to give up.· Pollution largely ended the shellfish industry although there have been recent attempts to revive it.· An attempt to revive the contest in 1871 failed, as did another in 1882.· Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack.
► career· Almost as strong a case for reviving an international career could be made for Teddy Sheringham.· He liked the fact that he had fought back from the break-up with Yamaguchi, revived a career in shambles.
► city· Now the concept is being revived with the City Technology Colleges of the 1980s and 1990s.
► country· But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air.
► economy· Both the leading candidates advocated free market policies and foreign investment to revive the stagnant economy.· They haven't revived the economy, and many are so blatantly political that some prefectures have started to refuse them.· Mr de la Rua's people are counting on a reviving economy to pay electoral dividends.· But it was also clear that the governmental machine had failed to revive the economy or reform social institutions in the 1950s.· That has been successful in reviving the national economy as a whole.
► effort· An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful.· It is perhaps not fortuitous that Stein made the enormous effort to revive the publication when he did.· Minutes later a team of paramedics began a futile effort to revive the boy.· He was taken to an Alameda hospital, where efforts to revive him failed.· The workman died at the scene despite efforts to revive him.
► fortune· The railway revived the flagging fortunes of Brighton.· The 35-year-old Beane is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of a once-successful organization.· He had carteblanche as long as he revived our fortunes - luckily he knew I was the station's biggest asset.
► idea· But when confronted with such a defeat, changes at the top are needed, if only to revive enthusiasm and ideas.
► industry· Shaw executives hope the nationwide rollout of stores will revive the ailing carpet industry.
► interest· Miss Green revived interest in 1924 and the branch was re-constituted but foundered again in 1927.· In fact, some accounts of the times attribute about 80 percent of the revived interest in neural networks directly to Hopfield.· She also tried hard to revive interest in Idomeneo, thus proving that she was no musical ignoramus.· Nothing revives interest in the press like a good war.· Some critics of the revived interest in Prussia have similar feelings.· Still, he argues that any break in the stock or bond markets could help revive investor interest in commodities.· The first merit of P. N. Furbank's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot.
► memory· New York city is reviving unhappy memories of its near-crash in the 1970s.· Perhaps the room revived a taxing memory of what had happened.· A tidy wench was unlikely to revive memories of a ragged boy aboard the Princess.
► party· Together they revived their party piece from the Sixties, Open Country, which like everything they played, was superb.
► plan· Nearly everyone had a very positive outlook and the plans for action to revive the area were discussed.
► project· Walavalkar said Enron told the government it wanted to complete the paperwork for reviving the project by Feb. 15.
► tradition· Warner Bros is reviving the tradition of Saturday morning children's cinema at its multiplex cinemas.· Souvenir hunters revived the centuries-old tradition after a huge tanker washed up on the rocks below East Prawle, Devon.
VERB► help· The city built the California Center for the Arts, Escondido downtown and has taken other measures to help revive that area.· Still, he argues that any break in the stock or bond markets could help revive investor interest in commodities.
► seek· He has lived ever since on the ThaiBurma border, seeking to support and revive the democracy movement in his country.
► try· They said they tried to revive him and that all the injuries were inflicted accidentally.· For two decades, the town leaders tried to revive it and rebuild it and rename it.· They will then try to revive his spirits while they consider which offer of a new home is most suitable for him.· Now comes a book that tries to revive loyalty.· But the distribution of the supplies involves a tortuous journey and an agonising delay.Faqir spends another half-hour trying to revive the engine.· The 35-year-old Beane is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of a once-successful organization.· Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him.· Amid much fanfare, Shugrue tried to revive Eastern Airlines in 1994 but failed to gain sufficient financial backing.
Local people have decided to revive this centuries-old tradition.2[intransitive, transitive] to become healthy and strong again, or to make someone or something healthy and strong again → recover: The economy is beginning to revive. an attempt to revive the steel industry The doctors revived her with injections of glucose.3[transitive] to produce a play again after it has not been performed for a long time: A London theatre has decided to revive the 1950s musical ‘In Town’.