Entry Word: revive

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to bring back to life, practice, or activity <an effort to revive the once-common custom of celebrating May 1 as a springtime festival of games and dances>

Synonyms reanimate, regenerate, rejuvenate, rekindle, renew, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize

Related Words reactivate, restart

Near Antonyms extinguish, quench, suppress

2 to bring back to a former condition or vigor <running through the sprinkler always revives us on hot August afternoons> — see renew 1
3 to gain consciousness again <the patient eventually revived and was able to give us her name and address> — see come to