reviving

1. To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
2. To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew.

   Her grandmother refused to be revived if she lost consciousness.

3. To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.

   Classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

4. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

   This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room.

5. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
6. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.

   The Harry Potter films revived the world's interest in wizardry

7. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
8. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state

   to revive a metal after calcination

noun

A revival; a bringing back to life.