One entry found for revive.

Entry Word: revive
Function: verb
Text: 1 to bring back to life, practice, or activity <an effort to revive the once-common custom of celebrating May 1 as a springtime festival of games and dances>
Synonyms reanimate, regenerate, rejuvenate, rekindle, renew, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize
Related Words reactivate, restart
Near Antonyms extinguish, quench, suppress
2 to bring back to a former condition or vigor <running through the sprinkler always revives us on hot August afternoons> -- see RENEW 1
3 to gain consciousness again <the patient eventually revived and was able to give us her name and address> -- see COME TO