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Resuscitate vs Revival - What's the difference?

resuscitate | revival |

As a verb resuscitate

is to restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.

As an adjective resuscitate

is (obsolete) restored to life.

As a noun revival is

the act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

resuscitate

English

Verb

(resuscitat)
  • To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
  • to resuscitate''' a drowned person; to '''resuscitate withered plants
  • To regain consciousness.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Restored to life.
  • (Bishop Gardiner)

    revival

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
  • Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
  • Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature.
  • Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
  • A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
  • Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
  • Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
  • Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
  • the revival of hot pants
  • Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal.
  • the revival''' of a debt barred by limitation; the '''revival of a revoked will
  • Revivification, as of a metal.
  • Derived terms

    * devival * revivalism * revivalist