ожива́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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

ожива́ть is used for these senses in English:

• relive (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. [16th–17th 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.
• revive To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

revive — full definition

1. verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.
2. verb To bring something back to activity, popularity, or use after a period of decline.

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