Synonyms for revive
rɪˈvaɪvre·vive

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1. revive

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise

   Antonyms:
   abate, decline, decrease, diminish, ebb, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subside

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1. revive

   Synonyms:
   reanimate, revivify, resucitate, refresh, reassure, recover, awake, live

   Antonyms:
   extinguish, kill, depress, exhaust, discourage, droop, fade, wither, decline, die

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1. resuscitate, reviveverb

   cause to regain consciousness

   "The doctors revived the comatose man"

   Synonyms:
   repair, animate, recreate, resuscitate, vivify, renovate, resurrect, quicken, come to, reanimate, revivify

2. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

   give new life or energy to

   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

   Synonyms:
   speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, animate, remediate, quicken, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, recreate, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

3. reviveverb

   be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

   "Interest in ESP revived"

   Synonyms:
   repair, animate, recreate, resuscitate, vivify, renovate, resurrect, quicken, come to, reanimate, revivify

4. revive, resurrectverb

   restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

   "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

   Synonyms:
   repair, rise, uprise, animate, recreate, resuscitate, raise, vivify, upraise, renovate, resurrect, quicken, come to, reanimate, revivify

5. come to, revive, resuscitateverb

   return to consciousness

   "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, resurrect, touch, quicken, reanimate, revivify, have-to doe with, touch on, vivify, come to, relate, refer, hit, strike, animate, pertain, repair, bear on, renovate, resuscitate, concern

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1. • Boom
   • Bring To
   • Change State
   • Stimulate

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1. raise from the dead

   to restore to life or consciousness.

   we revived him with artificial respiration.

   Submitted by JP03 on July 26, 2015  

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1. reviveverb

   Synonyms:
   resuscitate, reanimate, revivify, bring to life again

2. reviveverb

   Synonyms:
   rouse, quicken, animate, refresh, renovate, reinspire, invigorate, cheer, comfort

3. reviveverb

   Synonyms:
   be resuscitated or reanimated, return to life, recover life, live again

4. reviveverb

   Synonyms:
   be invigorated, refreshed, or roused; recover strength

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1. reviveverb

   Synonyms:
   resuscitate, reanimate, quicken, revivify, reinspirit, revitalize, restore, reinspire, rally

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1. List of paraphrases for "revive":

   revitalize, revitalise, reactivate, relaunch, reinvigorate, rekindle, resuscitate, resurrect, reviving, re-launch, relive, re-energize, resume, reignite, restart, revival, reanimate, revitalizing, re-activate, alive, revives, restore, jump-start, kick-start, boost, reenable, yahya, invigorate, yehya

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1. Prince Ali:

   The FIFA Oversight Group ...is an essential element to revive FIFA’s reputation and restore it to what it should be – a service organization for football, having the commitment of a group of people with such impeccable credentials, unquestioned integrity and global standing represents an unprecedented response to the unprecedented crisis sweeping FIFA.

2. Chris Williamson:

   Business investment needs to revive for the upturn to be truly sustainable, at the moment, the growth outlook appears to be largely reliant on households benefiting from falling prices and higher wages, the latter being far from guaranteed.

3. Former Vice President Joe Biden:

   I'd say we should not send you back to work until it's safe to send you back to work, this is a false choice. The way you revive the economy is you defeat the disease.

4. Catherine Cortez Masto:

   Trump’s attempt to revive Yucca Mountain is naive and would be a colossal waste of taxpayer money.

5. Ranil Wickremesinghe:

   It is no easy task to revive a country with a completely collapsed economy, especially one that is dangerously low on foreign reserves, if steps had at least been taken to slow down the collapse of the economy at the beginning, we would not be facing this difficult situation today.