revive

Other forms of revive

past tense

revived·

present participle

reviving·

third person

revives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about revive

What does revive mean?

revive means "cause to regain consciousness". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revive?

revive has 2 syllables: re-vive. The stress falls on "vive". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvaɪv/.

What is another word for revive?

Close synonyms include resuscitate, animate, recreate, reanimate, renovate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is revive a common word?

revive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with revive?

1 word rhymes with revive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.