revive

revive is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
2. intransitive verb. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. intransitive verb. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
4. intransitive verb. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
5. intransitive verb. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
6. intransitive verb. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
7. intransitive verb. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
8. intransitive verb. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
9. verb. return to consciousness

   "The patient came to quickly"

   "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

   Synonyms: resuscitate

10. verb. give new life or energy to

    "A hot soup will revive me"

    "This will renovate my spirits"

    Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify

11. verb. cause to regain consciousness

    "The doctors revived the comatose man"

    Synonyms: resuscitate

12. verb. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

    "He revived this style of opera"

    "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

    Synonyms: resurrect

13. verb. be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

    "Interest in ESP revived"

Synonyms

resuscitate, animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify, resurrect

Common word forms

revived, reviver, revives, reviving, revivement

Words from these letters

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