revive

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  1. transitive verb To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
  2. transitive verb To impart new health, vigor, or spirit to.
  3. transitive verb To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice.
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  • The economy will eventually revive, and industry professionals will be better positioned to thrive when that time comes if they use the bad times to create and perfect something new. —  CSO
  • Could textspeak in Irish revive interest in the language? —  RTÉ News
  • We know it because we have seen it revive -- and grow. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Allen's point is that when the short-term credit markets do revive, they probably won't be loaning money at 1 1 / 2 percent again soon. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • What international capitalism needs to revive, therefore, is a major reordering of the world economy. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
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  1. Middle English reviven, from Old French revivre, from Latin revīvere, to live again : re-, re- + vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French F. revivre = Provencal revinre = Catalan reviurer = Spanish revivir = Portuguese reviver = Italian rivivere, from Latin revivere, live again, revive (cf. Middle Latin revivare, transitive, revive), from re-, again, + vivere, live: see vivid. Cf. revire.
 

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