Meaning

To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness..

Definitions by Sense

1. To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
2. To bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.
3. To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
4. To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.
5. To renew (something) in one's or people's memories or minds; to bring back (something) to (public) attention; to reawaken.
6. To make (something which has become faded or unclear) clear or fresh again; to refresh.
7. To restore (a metal (especially mercury) or other substance in a compound or mixture) to its pure or unmixed state.
8. To give new validity to (a law or legal instrument); to reenact, to revalidate.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: rescue

Her grandmother said that if she lost consciousness, she would not want to be revived.

The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.

This VVater reviv'd his Father more than all the Rum or Spirits I had given him; for he vvas juſt fainting vvith Thirſt.

[H]e […] realized that he had shot his friend and protector, Tarzan of the Apes. […] Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened his eyes to look in questioning surprise at D'Arnot.

And in her cheekes the vermeill red did ſhevv / Like roſes in a bed of lilies ſhed, / The vvhich ambroſiall odours from them threvv, / And gazers ſence vvith double pleaſure fed, / Hable to heale the ſicke, and to reuiue the ded.

[T]he King is vveary / Of daintie and ſuch picking greeuances, / For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, / Reuiues tvvo greater in the heires of life: […]

I remember not in Scripture that God ever revived a brute Beaſt; partly, becauſe ſuch mean ſubjects are beneath the Majeſty of a Miracle; and partly, becauſe (as the Apoſtle ſaith) brute Beaſts are made to be taken & deſtroyed.

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