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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
revive .
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Examples
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Of course, being around Logan again revives many of her feelings for him that she thought had died years before.
VERONICA MARS: What Happens in Season Four? | the TV addict 2007
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Nature revives from the exhaustion of a sultry heat, vegetation is renewed, animal life is invigorated, leaves and herbage glow with a fresher green, when the
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The four last centuries are exempt from the reproach of penury; and with the Comnenian family, the historic muse of Constantinople again revives, but her apparel is gaudy, her motions are without elegance or grace.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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"There -- your mention of his name revives my recollection like a flash.
Miss Caprice George Rathborne 1896
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And this name revives the memory of one of the greatest inventions of the eighteenth century.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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The name revives the memory of our youth and manhood; we still remember the literary pleasure that his novellas, in particular, gave to us.
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After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.
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After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.
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Mr Narey's call revives the push for more adoptions launched by Tony Blair in his early years in power.
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