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. Kirk Cameron:

   Someone shared the Gospel with me. They shared their faith with me, and I embraced it. I embraced it with all of my heart. And that’s what I am hoping to do at ‘Revive Us.’.

2. Lopez Obrador:

   We are going to immediately revive our oil activity, exploration and the drilling of wells so we have crude oil.

3. Junichiro Koizumi:

   Japan used to be an advanced country in environmental strategy, but it's no longer seen that way, i want to help revive the image even by a little bit.

4. Ryan Felsman:

   Asian stocks are primed to follow their U.S. peers higher on optimism that U.S. federal spending will revive growth and corporate earnings, that’s all pointing to a positive day in Asia.

5. Stephen Innes:

   Price action over the past 48 hours does illustrate just how quick traders are to revive fears about sluggish demand amid the thought of more abundant supplies.