reviving

Verb

revive (third-person singular simple present revives, present participle reviving, simple past and past participle revived)

1. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
   • Near-synonym: rescue

   Synonyms:

   rescue

2. (transitive) To bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.
   • And in her cheekes the vermeill red did ſhevv / Like roſes in a bed of lilies ſhed, / The vvhich ambroſiall odours from them threvv, / And gazers ſence vvith double pleaſure fed, / Hable to heale the ſicke, and to reuiue the ded.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 224

   Synonyms:

   reanimate, resurrect

3. (figuratively, transitive) To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
   • The Manx language has been revived after dying out, and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.

   Synonyms:

   reestablish, refresh, reinvigorate, renew, revivify, rally

4. (figuratively, transitive) To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.
   • Partriche. Of all foules is moſte ſooneſt digeſted: and hath in hym moche nutriment, comforteth the brayne, and maketh ſede of generation,. and reuiueth luſte, whiche is abated.153[9], Thomas Elyot, “Of Flesshe”, in The Castel of Helth […], London: […] Thomæ Bertheleti […], →OCLC, book II, folio 50, verso
5. (figuratively, transitive) To renew (something) in one's or people's memories or minds; to bring back (something) to (public) attention; to reawaken.
   • The Harry Potter books and films revived the world’s interest in wizardry.

   Synonyms:

   rekindle, resurrect

6. (figuratively, transitive) To make (something which has become faded or unclear) clear or fresh again; to refresh.
   • It was very odd; his clothes were a fine, deep, glossy, black, and yet they looked like the same suit; nay, there were the very darns, with which old acquaintance had made us familiar. […] The truth flashed suddenly upon us—they had been "revived." 'Tis a deceitful liquid that black and blue...1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Shabby-genteel People”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume II, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page...

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