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Meaning of revive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  revive
      v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the
           comatose man" [syn: {resuscitate}, {revive}]
      2: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
         "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
         health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive},
         {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"; "He resurrected the tango in
         this remote part of Argentina" [syn: {revive}, {resurrect}]
      5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She
         revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: {come
         to}, {revive}, {resuscitate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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