The Meaning of revive

• (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
• (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
• (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
• (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
• (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
• (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
• (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
• (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Synonyms

repair , animate , recreate , resuscitate , vivify , renovate , resurrect , quicken , come to , reanimate , revivify , speed up , furbish up , restitute , compensate , remediate , fix , amend , enliven , mend , cheer , animize , accelerate , refurbish , liven up , bushel , invigorate , speed , inspire , exalt , play , hearten , restore , freshen up , rectify , touch on , recompense , animise , remedy , resort , embolden , liven , whet , doctor , indemnify , rise , uprise , raise , upraise , touch , have-to doe with , relate , refer , hit , strike , pertain , bear on , concern , bring to , bring back , bring round , bring around

Rhymes

alive , archive , arrive , beehive , c5 , chive , clive , clyve , connive , contrive , deprive , derive , dive , dr , drive , five , hive , jive , live , m5 , nosedive , overdrive , shive , shrive , skive , strive , survive , thrive , vive