0 present 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.
Evidently, the events across the border were reviving dormant resentments throughout the western frontier lands.
Elsewhere, the past two years have encouraged critics and commentators to applaud a reviving political theatre.
To achieve this end, they sometimes resorted to reviving bygone tribal identities or inventing new ones altogether.
