Revive vs Respawn - What's the difference?
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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
To reappear at its spawn point.
(video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed.
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As verbs the difference between revive and respawn
is that revive is to return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated while respawn is to reappear at its spawn point.revive
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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.
Synonyms
* rediscover * resurrect * renewDerived terms
* revival * revivable * unrevivablerespawn
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Verb
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