come alive

Verb

Meaning

stop sleeping

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

awake rise wake revive awaken arouse wake up waken come to life become excited regain consciousness rise from the dead come back to life come back from the dead become active

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Antonyms

die expire decease croak kick the bucket pass on

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Hypernyms

turn change state

Examples

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. Colum McCann

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. Ernest Gaines

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile. Imelda Marcos

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive. Erma Bombeck

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. Wole Soyinka

Close letter words and terms

come after come again come again to come alive again come aloft come alone