revives
USruh-VYVZ/ɹəˈvaɪvz/UKri-VYVZ/ɹɪˈvaɪvz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of revive.
The small town revives an old harvest tradition every autumn.
A strong cup of coffee revives him before the morning shift.
Note
Spelling is the easy part: the stem already ends in a silent e, so only -s is added. The interest is in range. With a person or animal as object, the verb means bringing someone round from a faint, or even back from death. With a tradition, a feeling, a memory or something faded, it turns figurative: making it lively, present or fresh again. Each of these uses takes an object: coffee revives him.
revives is a form of revive
revive, verb: To cause something to recover from decline, neglect, or obscurity, making it active and lively again. Full entry
- Spelling
- revive → revives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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