re·vive /rɪˈvaɪv/
(vt.)使甦醒,使復興,使振奮,回想起(vi.)甦醒,復活,復興,恢復精神
re·vive /rɪˈvaɪv/ 動詞
恢復,復原
Re·vive, v. t.
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. --Bp. Pearson.
2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. --Shak.
Your coming, friends, revives me. --Milton.
3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. “Revive the libels born to die.”
The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. --Locke.
5. Old Chem. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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Re·vive v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings xvii. 22.
2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. Old Chem. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
revive
v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the
comatose man" [syn: resuscitate]
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, 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: resurrect]
5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She
revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come
to, resuscitate]