1. [verb] (transitive) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
2. [verb] (transitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. [verb] (transitive) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
4. [verb] (transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
5. [verb] (transitive) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
6. [verb] To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
7. [verb] (intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
8. [verb] (transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
9. [verb] Cause to regain consciousness; 'The doctors revived the comatose man'.
10. [verb] Give new life or energy to; 'A hot soup will revive me'; 'This will renovate my spirits'; 'This treatment repaired my health'.
11. [verb] Be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; 'Interest in ESP revived'.
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'.
13. [verb] Return to consciousness; 'The patient came to quickly'; 'She revived after the doctor gave her an injection'.
