## Meanings
1. To bring something back into use, activity, or popularity.
2. To make someone strong, healthy, or conscious again.
3. To become strong, active, or conscious again.

## Examples
- The town is trying to revive its old market tradition.
- The doctors managed to revive the patient.
- Interest in the sport revived after the championship.

## Antonyms
- deanimate
- devitalize
- devive

## Derived Forms
- revivability
- revivable
- revival
- revived
- revivement
- reviver
- reviving
- revivingly
- revivor
- unrevivable
- unrevived

## Related Forms
- revivification
- survival
- survive
- vivification
- vivify

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *gʷeyh₃-
- Root: reviven
- Root: reviver
- Root: revivre
- Root: revīvere

## Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, t…

## AI Etymology
Revive as a verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, t. Modern senses include to bring something back into use, activity, or popularity. and to make someone strong, healthy, or conscious again.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as revivability, revivable, revival, revived, revivement, and reviver and related forms such as revivification, survival, survive, and vivification.

## Topics
- Cause, Change & Process
- Actions & Processes

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