Verb

(en verb)

To cause (something) to become more glad.

*1798 , William Wordsworth, The Nightingale :

*:A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, / Yet let us think upon the vernal showers / That gladden the green earth, and we shall find / A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

*1838 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist :

*:Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand. Alas! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!

(archaic) To become more glad in one's disposition.

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*:In May when every lusty heart flourisheth and bourgeoneth, for as the season is lusty to behold and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and gladden of summer coming with his fresh flowers: for winter with his rough winds and blasts causeth a lusty man and woman to cower and sit fast by the fire.

Verb

(reviv)

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived . 1 Kings xvii. 22.

The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.

Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness

To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

In recent years, The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.

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

Hopefully 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.

Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

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

revive a metal after calcination.