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Revives vs Reviles - What's the difference?

revives | reviles |

As verbs the difference between revives and reviles

is that revives is third-person singular of revive while reviles is third-person singular of revile.

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

    reviles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (revile)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    revile

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To attack (someone) with abusive language.
  • * Bible, 1 Peter ii. 23
  • who, when he was reviled , reviled not again
  • * Shakespeare
  • And did not she herself revile me there?

    Synonyms

    * reproach * scold * vilify * vituperate

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) reproach; reviling
  • The gracious Judge, without revile , replied. — Milton.

    Anagrams

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