Meaning

• To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

• To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew.

  "Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness."

• To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.

  "Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century."

• To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

  "This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room."

• To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

• To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

  "The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry"

• To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

• To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

  "to revive a metal after calcination"