Vive vs. Revive

Vive vs. Revive — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Vive and Revive

Viveadjective

(obsolete) lively, animated; forcible

Reviveverb

(intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

Reviveverb

(transitive) To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew.

The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness.

Reviveverb

(ambitransitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.

Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.The Manx language has been revived after dying out and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.

Reviveverb

(transitive) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room.

Reviveverb

(transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

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Reviveverb

(transitive) 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

Reviveverb

(intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

Reviveverb

(transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

to revive a metal after calcination

Reviveverb

cause to regain consciousness;

The doctors revived the comatose man

Reviveverb

give new life or energy to;

A hot soup will revive meThis will renovate my spiritsThis treatment repaired my health

Reviveverb

be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength;

Interest in ESP revived
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Reviveverb

restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state;

He revived this style of operaHe resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina

Reviveverb

return to consciousness;

The patient came to quicklyShe revived after the doctor gave her an injection