What's the difference between rekindle and revive?

Rekindle


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To kindle again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
  • (3) In early 1998, Frischmann and Albarn went on holiday to Bali in an unsuccessful attempt to rekindle their relationship.
  • (4) Blair then acted as an "honest broker" between the two to rekindle the deal, the court heard.
  • (5) Interest in the long-neglected neuropathology of major affective disorders has recently been rekindled, partly because of the emergence of brain-imaging techniques.
  • (6) This technique rekindles interest in intra-arterial chemotherapy via a retrograde temporal route, by simplifying the technique.
  • (7) A revised policy would have to fulfil the twin objectives of ending the torture and other violations without rekindling the armada of boats.
  • (8) The UN, the EU and Britain joined the Palestinians in condemning the move as provocative at a time when the major powers are struggling to rekindle negotiations while the Palestinian bid for statehood is still before the UN security council.
  • (9) It has come up with a range of new products, including pastas and frozen foods, aimed at rekindling demand for its range.
  • (10) What the nascent recovery has done, however, is rekindle the true national sport since the 1970s – property speculation.
  • (11) Yet, despite the general negativity which seems to prevail, there remain grounds for optimism that the fire that inspired the Human Rights Act can be rekindled.
  • (12) Patents for magnetic denture retainers in dental prosthesis, have issued since 1930, but recent developments rekindled interest.
  • (13) Recent advances in electrode design have helped to rekindle clinical interests in noninvasive electrocochleography--to enhance auditory brain stem response (ABR) recordings (namely, wave I) and to screen Meniere's disease.
  • (14) Yet those around me, my family and my partner, Jen, encouraged me and rekindled my fight.
  • (15) In Hong Kong, Liu’s death has rekindled an anti-mainland sentiment that has been smouldering for years.
  • (16) With a bit more fiscal leeway, Syriza argues it could raise public sector salaries, slow the pace of job cuts and raise pensions, helping to boost consumer demand and rekindle economic growth.
  • (17) The president will signal a rekindling of the "special relationship" by welcoming Cameron to the White House with a 19-gun salute and a state dinner.
  • (18) Comparative examination of the chronological pattern of the clinical seizure development, after discharge growth, and formation of distant independent spike foci was made between periods of kindling with chronic drug administration and of rekindling without drugs.
  • (19) With the Squire-Brown friendship rekindled and Reni back on drums and backing vocals, they have a point to prove: that a Third Coming can be done with dignity, and that the once-mighty Stone Roses can be The Best Band On The Planet once again.
  • (20) Her relationship with Charles, which began before her marriage then was rekindled afterwards and during his own marriage to Diana, led to her becoming a prisoner in her own home, fearful of public hostility and press hounding, especially after Diana’s death.

Revive


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
  • (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  • (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
  • (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
  • (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
  • (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (5) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
  • (6) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
  • (7) Fear of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other blood-transmitted diseases has created a revival of autologous transfusion during cardiac surgery.
  • (8) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (9) The present data further demonstrate that a subpopulation of B cells which were functionally deleted during aging can be revived in vivo with 7m8oGuo.
  • (10) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
  • (11) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
  • (12) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
  • (13) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
  • (14) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
  • (15) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (16) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
  • (17) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
  • (18) Ukraine peace process: leaders agree roadmap to revive talks Read more By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine’s politicians seem to stash away in hard cash.
  • (19) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
  • (20) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.

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