The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Revive \Re*vive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
   1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
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            Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died,
            shall be revived.                     --Bp. Pearson.
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   2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or
      discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
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            Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Your coming, friends, revives me.     --Milton.
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   3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as,
      to revive letters or learning.
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   4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection;
      to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels
      born to die." --Swift.
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            The mind has a power in many cases to revive
            perceptions which it has once had.    --Locke.
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   5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or
      metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Revive \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- +
   vivere to live. See Vivid.]
   1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live
      anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak.
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            The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
            the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings
                                                  xvii. 22.
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   2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity,
      neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in
      the fifteenth century.
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   3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a
      metal.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

revive
    v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the
         comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive]
    2: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
       "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
       health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
       renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
    3: be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength;
       "Interest in ESP revived"
    4: restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He
       revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in
       this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect]
    5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She
       revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come
       to, revive, resuscitate]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

294 Moby Thesaurus words for "revive":
   abet, accommodate, activate, adapt, adjust, aid, alter, ameliorate,
   animate, arouse, assist, avail, awake, awaken, bail out,
   be begotten, be born, be changed, be converted into, be incarnated,
   be renewed, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, better, bottom out,
   bounce back, brace, brace up, break, break up, breathe life into,
   brighten up, bring around, bring back, bring to, bring to mind,
   brisk, brisken, brush up, buck up, call back, call to mind,
   call up, change, checker, cheer, cheer up, chirk up, chop,
   chop and change, come about, come again, come alive, come around,
   come back, come into being, come into existence, come round,
   come to, come to life, come up smiling, comfort, conjure up,
   convert, copy, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate,
   ditto, diverge, diversify, do a repeat, do again, do good, do over,
   doctor, double, duplicate, ease, echo, energize, enliven, evoke,
   exhilarate, favor, fillip, fit, fix, flop, fortify, fresh up,
   freshen, freshen up, furbish, furbish up, gain, galvanize,
   get about, get back, get over, get well, give a boost, give a hand,
   give a lift, give help, go back, go back over, hark back,
   haul around, help, imitate, improve, infuse life into, invigorate,
   jazz up, jibe, lend a hand, lend one aid, light up, live again,
   look back, make a comeback, make over, meliorate, mind, mitigate,
   modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, parrot, perk up, pick up,
   pique, plagiarize, polish, polish up, proffer aid, protect,
   provoke, pull round, pull through, qualify, quicken, quote, rally,
   ransom, re-create, re-form, reactivate, realign, reanimate,
   rebuild, recall, recall to life, recall to mind, recapture,
   recharge, reclaim, recollect, reconstitute, reconstruct, recoup,
   recover, recreate, recruit, recuperate, redeem, redesign, redo,
   redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, reevoke, refashion,
   refit, reflect, reform, refound, refresh, refreshen, regain,
   regale, regenerate, regurgitate, reheat the ashes, reincarnate,
   reinspire, reinstate, reinstitute, reinvigorate, reissue,
   rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, relight, remake, remedy, remember,
   render assistance, renew, renovate, reoccupy, reopen, reorganize,
   repair, repeat, replevin, replevy, repossess, reprint, reproduce,
   rescue, reshape, restore, restructure, resume, resurge, resurrect,
   resuscitate, retake, retouch, retrace, retrieve, retrospect,
   return to life, revamp, review, review in retrospect, revindicate,
   revise, revitalize, revivify, rewarm, ring the changes, rise again,
   rub up, save, say again, see in retrospect, see the light, set up,
   sharpen, shift, shift the scene, shine, shuffle the cards, spruce,
   spruce up, stimulate, stir the embers, subvert, succor, summon up,
   survive, swerve, tack, take a turn, take back, take heart,
   take in tow, think back, think of, tone up, touch up, turn,
   turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale,
   turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change,
   use hindsight, vamp, vamp up, vary, veer, vitalize, vivify,
   wake up, waken, warm over, warm up, warp, weather the storm, whet,
   work a change, worsen



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

REVIVE, practice. When a judgment is more than a day and a year old, no
execution can issue upon it at common law; but till it has been paid, or the
presumption arises from lapse of time, that it has been satisfied, it may be
revived and have all its original force, which was merely suspended. This
may be done by a scire facias, or an action of debt on the judgment. Vide
Scire facias; Wakening.