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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revive |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, bounce back, breathe new life into, brighten, bring around, bring to, cheer, come around, come to life, comfort, console, encourage, energize, enkindle, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, invigorate, make whole, overcome, please, quicken, rally, reactivate, reanimate, reawaken, recondition, recover, refresh, rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resuscitate, revitalize, revivify, rouse, snap out of it, solace, spring up, strengthen, touch up, wake up |
| Main Entry: | popularize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make widely popular, accessible |
| Synonyms: | catch on, disseminate, familiarize, generalize, give currency, make available, promote, restore, resurrect, revive, simplify, spread, universalize |
| Antonyms: | discredit, shun |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start up, motivate; introduce |
| Synonyms: | abet, activate, advance, arouse, awaken, bring up, broach, cause, evoke, excite, foment, foster, incite, instigate, kindle, moot, motivate, provoke, put forward, resurrect, set, set on, stir up, suggest, whip up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | conclude, finish, stop |
| Main Entry: | rally |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reorganize, unite |
| Synonyms: | arouse, assemble, awaken, bestir, bond together, bring to order, bring together, call to arms, challenge, charge, collect, come about, come to order, come together, convene, counterattack, encourage, fire, gather, get together, inspirit, kindle, marshal, mobilize, muster, organize, reassemble, redouble, reform, refresh, regroup, rejuvenate, renew, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, round up, rouse, summon, surge, urge, wake, waken, whet, wreak havoc |
| Antonyms: | disperse, divide, scatter |
| Main Entry: | renovate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix up, modernize |
| Synonyms: | clean, cleanse, do up, do*, face-lift, gussy up, make over, overhaul, reactivate, recondition, reconstitute, recreate, refit, reform, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, rekindle, remake, remodel, renew, repair, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, retread, retrieve, revamp, revitalize, revive, revivify, spruce, spruce up, update |
| Notes: | refurbish means to 'clean up again,' refurnish means 'to provide with new furnishings,' redecorate means 'to add new decoration(s),' and renovate means 'renew or restore to as as-new condition' |
| Antonyms: | demolish, destroy, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resuscitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revive |
| Synonyms: | arouse, awaken, breathe new life into, bring back to life, bring to, come to life, energize, enkindle, enliven, give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, invigorate, perform CPR, rejuvenate, renovate, restore, resurrect, revitalize, save, wake up |
| Main Entry: | revamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | renovate |
| Synonyms: | clean, do up, face-lift, make over, overhaul, recondition, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, remake, remodel, renew, repair, restore, resurrect, retread, revitalize, revive, spruce up, update |
| Main Entry: | revive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start again; bring back to life |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, bounce back, breathe new life into, brighten, bring around, bring to, cheer, come around, come to life, comfort, console, encourage, energize, enkindle, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, invigorate, make whole, overcome, please, quicken, rally, reanimate, recondition, recover, refresh, rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, rouse, snap out of it, solace, spring up, strengthen, touch up, wake up |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill, suppress |
| Main Entry: | reanimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revive |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, bounce back, breathe new life into, brighten, bring around, bring to, cheer, come around, come to life, comfort, console, encourage, energize, enkindle, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, invigorate, make whole, overcome, please, quicken, rally, reactivate, reawaken, recondition, recover, refresh, rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revivify, rouse, snap out of it, solace, spring up, strengthen, touch up, wake up |
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