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Revive [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To return to life; to recover life.

2. The soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1 Kings 17:22 . Romans 14:9 .

3. To recover new life or vigor; to be reanimated after depression.

4. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Genesis 45:27 .

5. To recover from a state of neglect, oblivion, obscurity or depression. Learning revived in Europe after the middle ages.

6. In chimistry, to recover its natural state, as a metal.

7. Sin revives, when the conscience is awakened by a conviction of guilt. Romans 7:9 .

Revive [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bring again to life; to reanimate.

2. To raise from languor, depression or discouragement; to rouse; as, to revive the spirits or courage.

3. To renew; to bring into action after a suspension; as, to revive a project or scheme that had been laid aside.

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to recall.

5. The mind has the power in many cases to revive ideas or perceptions, which it has once had.

6. To recover from a state of neglect or depression; as, to revive letters or learning.

7. To recomfort; to quicken; to refresh with joy or hope.

8. Wilt thou not revive us again? Psalms 85:6 .

9. To bring again into notice.

10. Revive the libels born to die.

11. In chimistry, to restore or reduce to its natural state or to its metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Revive [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

3. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

4. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

5. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

6. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

7. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

8. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Revived [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Brought to life; reanimated; renewed; recovered; quickened; cheered; reduced to a metallic state.

Revived [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Revive

Revivement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Revival.

Reviver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That which revives; that which invigorates or refreshes; one that redeems from neglect or depression.

Reviver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, revives.

Reproduction Roget’s Thesaurus §163

N. reproduction, renovation, restoration, renewal, new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis, revivification, apotheosis, resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance, regrowth, phoenix, generation, multiplication

V. reproduce, restore, revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible, multiply, repeat, resurge, crop up, spring up like mushrooms

Adj. reproduced, renascent, reappearing, reproductive, suigenetic

Life Roget’s Thesaurus §359

N. life, vitality, viability, animation, vital spark, # vital flame, soul, spirit, respiration, wind, breath of life, breath of one's nostrils, oxygen, air, respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung, medical devices, lifeblood, archeus, existence, vivification, vital force, vitalization, revivification, prometheus, life to come, physiology, biology, animal ecology, nourishment, staff of life, genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) 161, microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile, animal, vegetable, artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence, breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature, preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662

V. be alive, live, breathe, respire, subsist, walk the earth "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage", be spared, see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life, quicken, revive, come to life, give birth to, bring to life, put into life, vitalize, vivify, vivificate, reanimate, keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door, support life, hive nine lives like a cat

Adj. living, alive, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated, animative, lively, all alive and kicking, tenacious of life, full of life, yeasty, vital, vitalic, vivifying, vivified, &c. v, viable, zoetic, promethean

Adv. vivendi causa

Phr. atqui vivere militare est, non est vivere sed valere vita

Restoration Roget’s Thesaurus §660

N. restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction|, phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure|, sanation|, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness

V. return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch|, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds

Adj. restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable

Adv. in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi-meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum

Excitation Roget’s Thesaurus §824

N. excitation of feeling, mental excitement, suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection, animation, agitation, perturbation, subjugation, fascination, intoxication, enravishment, entrancement, pressure, tension, high pressure, unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli, irritation, passion, thrill, repression of feeling, sensationalism, yellow journalism

V. excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect, stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood, set astir, wake, awake, awaken, call forth, evoke, provoke, raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up, raise, get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir, fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame, stimulate, exsuscitate|, inspirit, spirit up, stir up, work up, pique, infuse life into, give new life to, bring new blood, introduce new blood, quicken, sharpen, whet, work upon, hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle, fan the fire, fan the flame, blow the coals, stir the embers, fan into a flame, foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat, keep up, keep the pot boiling, revive, rekindle, rake up, rip up, stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings, touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart, go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick, possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul, absorb, rivet the attention, sink into the mind, sink into the heart, prey on the mind, distract, intoxicate, overwhelm, overpower, bouleverser, upset, turn one's head, fascinate, enrapture, agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger, give one a shock, give one a turn, strike all of a heap, stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify, irritate, sting, cut to the heart, cut to the quick, try one's temper, fool to the top of one's bent, pique, infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil, lash into fury, be excited, flush up, flare up, catch the infection, thrill, mantle, work oneself up, seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave, run mad

Adj. excited, wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling, in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement, in hysterics, black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge, hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish, all of a twitter, in a pucker, with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes, flaming, boiling over, ebullient, seething, foaming at the mouth, fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal, lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed, haggard, ready to sink, stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes, exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting, impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling, high- wrought, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, agonizing, telling, sensational, hysterical, overpowering, overwhelming, more than flesh and blood can bear, yellow, piquant, spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant, tantalizing, eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit

Adv. till one is black in the face

Phr. the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth, the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins, the eye glistening - "in a fine frenzy rolling", the head turned, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going"

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Genesis 45:27

And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.

Judges 15:19

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

1 Samuel 30:12

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

1 Kings 17:22

And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.

2 Kings 8:5

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

2 Kings 13:21

And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.

Nehemiah 4:2

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Psalms 69:32

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!

Psalms 71:20

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

Psalms 80:18

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

Psalms 85:6

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

Psalms 119:25

My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

Psalms 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

Psalms 119:40

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

Psalms 119:88

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.

Psalms 119:93

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

Psalms 119:107

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

Psalms 119:154

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.

Psalms 119:156

Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.

Psalms 138:7

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.