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REVIVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does revived mean?
• REVIVED (adjective)
The adjective REVIVED has 2 senses:
1. restored to consciousness or life or vigor
2. given fresh life or vigor or spirit
Familiarity information: REVIVED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restored to consciousness or life or vigor
Context example:
felt revived hope
Similar:
recrudescent (the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement)
redux (brought back)
renewed (restored to a new condition)
renascent; resurgent (rising again as to new life and vigor)
resuscitated (restored to life or consciousness)
reborn; revitalised; revitalized (restored to new life and vigor)
Antonym:
unrevived (not revived)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Given fresh life or vigor or spirit
Synonyms:
reanimated; revived
Context example:
stirred by revived hopes
Similar:
Context examples
Who was with you when you revived?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Elton's rights, however, gradually revived.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She presently revived, however, and was really pleased to see me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was extraordinary how their spirits had returned and how the natural colour had revived in their faces.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The fresh air revived me, and with renewed determination I approached the door of their cottage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
From this hour the subject is never to be revived between us.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was the safe place for the battle that revived itself under Martin's eyelids.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee cup himself; and she seized the opportunity of saying: Is your sister at Pemberley still?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Certainly, answered Elinor, without knowing what she said; but after a moment's reflection, she added, with revived security of Edward's honour and love, and her companion's falsehood—Engaged to Mr. Edward Ferrars!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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