verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lift/raise/revive sb’s spirits (= make them feel happier )
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A brisk walk helped to lift my spirits.
revive/resurrect your career (= make it successful again )
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The singer is seeking to revive his pop career.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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It was essentially a new attempt to revive the Burkeian fallacy of empire through freedom, obedience through liberty.
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Despite desperate attempts to revive her, the trace remained stubbornly flat, until in the end they had to give up.
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Pollution largely ended the shellfish industry although there have been recent attempts to revive it.
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An attempt to revive the contest in 1871 failed, as did another in 1882.
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Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack.
career
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Almost as strong a case for reviving an international career could be made for Teddy Sheringham.
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He liked the fact that he had fought back from the break-up with Yamaguchi, revived a career in shambles.
city
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Now the concept is being revived with the City Technology Colleges of the 1980s and 1990s.
country
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But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air.
economy
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Both the leading candidates advocated free market policies and foreign investment to revive the stagnant economy .
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They haven't revived the economy , and many are so blatantly political that some prefectures have started to refuse them.
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Mr de la Rua's people are counting on a reviving economy to pay electoral dividends.
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But it was also clear that the governmental machine had failed to revive the economy or reform social institutions in the 1950s.
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That has been successful in reviving the national economy as a whole.
effort
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An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful.
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It is perhaps not fortuitous that Stein made the enormous effort to revive the publication when he did.
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Minutes later a team of paramedics began a futile effort to revive the boy.
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He was taken to an Alameda hospital, where efforts to revive him failed.
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The workman died at the scene despite efforts to revive him.
fortune
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The railway revived the flagging fortunes of Brighton.
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The 35-year-old Beane is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of a once-successful organization.
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He had carteblanche as long as he revived our fortunes - luckily he knew I was the station's biggest asset.
idea
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But when confronted with such a defeat, changes at the top are needed, if only to revive enthusiasm and ideas .
industry
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Shaw executives hope the nationwide rollout of stores will revive the ailing carpet industry .
interest
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Miss Green revived interest in 1924 and the branch was re-constituted but foundered again in 1927.
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In fact, some accounts of the times attribute about 80 percent of the revived interest in neural networks directly to Hopfield.
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She also tried hard to revive interest in Idomeneo, thus proving that she was no musical ignoramus.
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Nothing revives interest in the press like a good war.
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Some critics of the revived interest in Prussia have similar feelings.
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Still, he argues that any break in the stock or bond markets could help revive investor interest in commodities.
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The first merit of P. N. Furbank's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot.
memory
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New York city is reviving unhappy memories of its near-crash in the 1970s.
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Perhaps the room revived a taxing memory of what had happened.
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A tidy wench was unlikely to revive memories of a ragged boy aboard the Princess.
party
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Together they revived their party piece from the Sixties, Open Country, which like everything they played, was superb.
plan
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Nearly everyone had a very positive outlook and the plans for action to revive the area were discussed.
project
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Walavalkar said Enron told the government it wanted to complete the paperwork for reviving the project by Feb. 15.
tradition
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Warner Bros is reviving the tradition of Saturday morning children's cinema at its multiplex cinemas.
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Souvenir hunters revived the centuries-old tradition after a huge tanker washed up on the rocks below East Prawle, Devon.
■ VERB
help
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The city built the California Center for the Arts, Escondido downtown and has taken other measures to help revive that area.
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Still, he argues that any break in the stock or bond markets could help revive investor interest in commodities.
seek
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He has lived ever since on the ThaiBurma border, seeking to support and revive the democracy movement in his country.
try
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They said they tried to revive him and that all the injuries were inflicted accidentally.
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For two decades, the town leaders tried to revive it and rebuild it and rename it.
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They will then try to revive his spirits while they consider which offer of a new home is most suitable for him.
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Now comes a book that tries to revive loyalty.
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But the distribution of the supplies involves a tortuous journey and an agonising delay.Faqir spends another half-hour trying to revive the engine.
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The 35-year-old Beane is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of a once-successful organization.
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Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him.
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Amid much fanfare, Shugrue tried to revive Eastern Airlines in 1994 but failed to gain sufficient financial backing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a campaign to revive the tradition of holding a two-minute silence on Armistice Day
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Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but could not revive him.
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Seeing Dan revived all my old feelings of inadequacy.
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The movie revives Ali's reputation as a boxer.
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They are planning to revive the old Saint's Day parades through town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful.
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Gingrich on Tuesday, for example, began reviving the notion of a balanced budget agreement with President Clinton.
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I did not revive his son.
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Portions or aspects of his earlier self revive .
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The Labour Party will not revive until it can show how to achieve jobs for all who need them.
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The ship's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived.
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To mention him would be to revive an old humiliation.
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Warner Bros is reviving the tradition of Saturday morning children's cinema at its multiplex cinemas.