What's the difference between resurrect and revive?

Resurrect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take from the grave; to disinter.
  • (v. t.) To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Trimble, also a former leader of the UUP, said that resurrecting the IMC could act as a “confidence-building measure” for the unionist community.
  • (2) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
  • (3) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
  • (4) Mitalipov's work resurrects cloning as a means of making tool for creating stem cells, and means that iPS cells can now be compared directly with embryonic stem cells to see if the differences matter.
  • (5) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
  • (6) A lthough Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession.
  • (7) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
  • (8) He must also decide whether to resurrect the post of White House climate adviser, which has been empty since early 2011 when Carol Browner stepped down .
  • (9) Few see it as a coincidence that the supreme court this week resurrected its efforts to have Swiss authorities prosecute Zardari on corruption charges.
  • (10) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
  • (11) f) Excess, unbound fixative inhibited the histochemical reaction per se and had to be removed from the tissue but prolonged washing did not resurrect enzyme activity which was lost by fixation.
  • (12) If Ukip is ever to resurrect itself as a serious political force, it’s going to need a good long think about what fundamentally drives people to be Ukip.” Arnott said he would formally resign as Ukip’s general secretary and constitutional affairs spokesman after the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Monday.
  • (13) He then went on to resurrect his scenario of the ordinary worker who sees their neighbour "still asleep, living a life on benefits", to announce measures to cut almost £4bn a year from the welfare bill by uprating benefits for Britain's poorest by just 1% a year until 2015.
  • (14) A core group of European Union founding countries is to risk the fury of Visegrád member states as it forces the resurrection of a two-speed Europe back on to the Brussels agenda six decades after the treaty of Rome.
  • (15) It said that demonstration sparked an investigation then into whether the Brotherhood had resurrected a military wing.
  • (16) But now, with the surprise resurrection of Arrested Development and a well-adjusted lead role in new sitcom The Millers , he's in a pretty good place.
  • (17) Touré, nonetheless, was clearly relieved about a verdict that at least gives the former Arsenal player the chance to resurrect his career at a time when Mancini is already looking at bringing in another centre-half to partner Vincent Kompany.
  • (18) What was the 50p tax rate that Labour says it will resurrect?
  • (19) Now the physical intervention is about to start.” The chapel above the tomb where Christ is believed to have been buried and resurrected is in danger of collapse.
  • (20) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.

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.