0 past simple and past participle of revive
1 to come or bring something back to life, health, existence, or use:
They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
How can the Trade Department be revived from its present moribund state?
The peace plan put forward last August has been revived for the latest round of negotiations.
Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
This would seem to be an opportune moment for reviving our development plan.
The eruption of the border war stoked the old fears of survival, and revived the sense of collective responsibility nurtured for half a century.
If that revived, there would be no difficulty in implementing proposals such as we had laboured to list.
A revived agriculture was essential to national well-being, but reform of the monetary system was essential if there were to be an agricultural revival.
