Reinvent vs Revive - What's the difference?
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To invent again something that has already been invented.
To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
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.
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
As verbs the difference between reinvent and revive
is that reinvent is to invent again something that has already been invented while revive is to return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.reinvent
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Verb
(en verb)- He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed.
Derived terms
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(reviv)- 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
- 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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- Hopefully this new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room
- The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry
- revive a metal after calcination.