reviveverb [ I or T ]
uk/rɪˈvaɪv/us/rɪˈvaɪv/C2 to come or bring something back to life, health, existence, or use:
to revive someone's hopes/confidence/fortunes
My plants revived as soon as I gave them some water.
A hot shower and a cup of tea will revive you.
Traditional skills are being revived.
More examples
- They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
- How can the Trade Department be revived from its present moribund state?
- The peace plan put forward last August has been revived for the latest round of negotiations.
- Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
- This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Restoring and reviving
- ball
- bounce
- lick your wounds idiom
- modernize
- move
- move with the times idiom
- pick
- pick up/take the ball and run with it idiom
- rejuvenate
- rekindle
- renaissance
- restoration
- restore
- revitalize
- revival
- revivify
- rise
- rise from the dead/grave idiom
- salvage
- snap
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