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Revives vs Relives - What's the difference?

revives | relives |

As verbs the difference between revives and relives

is that revives is (revive) while relives is (relive).

revives

English

Verb

(head)
  • (revive)
  • ----

    revive

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.}}
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * rediscover * resurrect * renew

    Derived terms

    * revival * revivable * unrevivable

    relives

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (relive)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    relive

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • *:Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].
  • To come back to life.
  • To experience (something) again; to live over again.
  • :I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming, just as I screamed when it happened.
  • Anagrams

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