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Reviving

To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

📖 Definitions of "Reviving"

verb
  1. 1

    To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

  2. 2

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

    "Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness."

  3. 3

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

    "Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century."

  4. 4

    To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

    "This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room."

noun
  1. 1

    A revival; a bringing back to life.

🔄 Synonyms of "Reviving"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

WordDefinition
invigoratingGiving strength, energy and vitality; quickening; stimulating.
restorativenounServing to restore.
renewingnounThat renews someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
revitalizingtending to impart new life and vigor to

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WordDefinition
renewingnounThat renews someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
restorativenounServing to restore.
invigoratingGiving strength, energy and vitality; quickening; stimulating.
revitalizingtending to impart new life and vigor to
reviviscentAble or disposed to revive; reviving.
revivalnounThe act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
resurgencenounAn instance of something resurging; a renewal of vigor or vitality.
rejuvenationnounThe process of producing beneficial changes.
revitalizationnounThe process of revitalizing.
recoveringnounThe process or the instance of recovery.
restoreverb(transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
renewalnounThe act of renewing.
restoredPertaining to something or someone renewed or rebuilt.
revitalizeverbAmerican and Oxford British English standard spelling of revitalise.
rehabilitationnounThe process of rehabilitating somebody or something.
restorationnounThe process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
resumptionnounThe act of resuming or starting something again.
recoverynounA return to normal health.
rekindlingnounThe act of kindling again.
resumeverb(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.

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