revive

IPA: rɪvˈaɪv

(intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
(transitive) To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.
(transitive, intransitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
(transitive, figurative) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again.
(transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
(transitive) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
(intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal)
(transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

Examples of "revive" in Sentences

Could textspeak in Irish revive interest in the language?
The “further the world gets from the gulf war, the more it seems willing to let Mr. Hussein revive his deadly weapons projects.”
It was some time since Jerry had spoken a word of German, but as she stood before Gretchen's picture old memories seemed to revive, and with them the German word for _pretty_, which she involuntarily spoke aloud.
Now, hanging a few traitors will not kill slavery; and our danger is that slavery itself will slip through the noose, and that when it shall begin to revive from the shock, many who are now shouting "Hang the traitors," will take up the old familiar cry, "Hang the abolitionists."
This further is to be observed, concerning ideas lodged in the memory, and upon occasion revived by the mind, that they are not only (as the word revive imports) none of them new ones, but also that the mind takes notice of them as of a former impression, and renews its acquaintance with them, as with ideas it had known before.
We are now having our winter snow, not indeed deep or heavy, or long lying, but more than we have had yet this season, and ice and frost that again revive my hope of getting the ice-house filled before the spring fairly comes, and we are left unprovided with what is here such an indispensable necessary of life, that we shall have to purchase it daily, if we have not our stored supply.