verb

• (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