How do you use the word "revive" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "revive": The rain will revive this tree. That will help revive a fashion of the past.

Revive Meaning

/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯v/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

verbTo bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.

Sentence Examples

The rain will revive this tree.

That will help revive a fashion of the past.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

repair recreate quicken

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor tried to ____ the patient after his heart stopped beating.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The paramedics managed to ____ the patient after he had been unconscious for several minutes.

Word Origin & History

The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, the present active infinitive of revīvō (“to live again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + vīvō (“to be alive, survive; to live”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)). The noun is derived from the verb.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"This VVater reviv'd his Father more than all the Rum or Spirits I had given him; for he vvas juſt fainting vvith Thirſt." — 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 283:

"[H]e […] realized that he had shot his friend and protector, Tarzan of the Apes. […] Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened his eyes to look in questioning surprise at D'Arnot." — 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “The Outpost of the World”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC, pages 336–337:

"And in her cheekes the vermeill red did ſhevv / Like roſes in a bed of lilies ſhed, / The vvhich ambroſiall odours from them threvv, / And gazers ſence vvith double pleaſure fed, / Hable to heale the ſicke, and to reuiue the ded." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 224:

"[T]he King is vveary / Of daintie and ſuch picking greeuances, / For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, / Reuiues tvvo greater in the heires of life: […]" — c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signature G, verso:

"I remember not in Scripture that God ever revived a brute Beaſt; partly, becauſe ſuch mean ſubjects are beneath the Majeſty of a Miracle; and partly, becauſe (as the Apoſtle ſaith) brute Beaſts are made to be taken & deſtroyed." — 1655, Thomas Fuller, “The Tenth Century”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, book II, page 129:

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