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rivivere — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • perpetuate verb To keep something going indefinitely, often something negative like a problem or stereotype.
  • relive verb To experience a past event again, especially in memory or imagination.
  • revive verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.

Senses

rivivere is used for these senses in English:

  • perpetuate (transitive) To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.
  • relive (transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again. [from 18th c.]
  • revive To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.

perpetuate — full definition

  1. verb To keep something going indefinitely, often something negative like a problem or stereotype.
  2. verb To preserve something so it is not forgotten.

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