REVIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reviving mean? 

• REVIVING (adjective)
  The adjective REVIVING has 1 sense:

1. tending to impart new life and vigor to

  Familiarity information: REVIVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVIVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to impart new life and vigor to

Synonyms:

renewing; restorative; revitalising; revitalizing; reviving

Context example:

the renewing warmth of the sunshine

Similar:

invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)

 Context examples 

I wore away the longest part of many wild sad nights, in those rides; reviving, as I went, the thoughts that had occupied me in my long absence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How we bathed our poor bodies in its delicious warmth, reviving like bugs and crawling things after a storm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now tasted by me for the first time—the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes, sentiments, and principles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anxious not to appear unhappy, she soon recovered herself; and wiping away her tears, was able to notice and admire all the striking parts of his dress; listening with reviving spirits to his cheerful hopes of being on shore some part of every day before they sailed, and even of getting her to Spithead to see the sloop.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She heard enough to know that Mr. Weston was giving some information about his son; she heard the words my son, and Frank, and my son, repeated several times over; and, from a few other half-syllables very much suspected that he was announcing an early visit from his son; but before she could quiet Mr. Elton, the subject was so completely past that any reviving question from her would have been awkward.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I knew Mrs. Reed had not spoken for days: was she reviving?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her voice sunk with the word, but presently reviving she added, "I am thankful to find that I can look with so little pain on the spot!—shall we ever talk on that subject, Elinor?"—hesitatingly it was said.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I saw him look at the loaf at supper (which happened to be a small one), as if nothing else stood between us and famine; and when my aunt insisted on his making his customary repast, I detected him in the act of pocketing fragments of his bread and cheese; I have no doubt for the purpose of reviving us with those savings, when we should have reached an advanced stage of attenuation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At first I did not know to what room he had borne me; all was cloudy to my glazed sight: presently I felt the reviving warmth of a fire; for, summer as it was, I had become icy cold in my chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)