Usually means: Become energized, vibrant, and active.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. come alive: Merriam-Webster
  2. come alive: Vocabulary.com
  3. come alive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. come alive: Dictionary.com
  5. Come Alive (Daniel Ash album), Come Alive (Mark Schultz album), Come Alive (Netsky song), Come Alive (Paris Hilton song), Come Alive (Paulini album), Come Alive (The War of the Roses), Come Alive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. come alive: Rhymezone
  7. come alive: FreeDictionary.org
  8. come alive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. come alive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. come alive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  11. come alive: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come alive: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come alive)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) to become responsive and animated.

Similar:
awaken, waken, wake up, wake, arouse, awake, come to life, bring to life, reawaken, reanimate, more...

Opposite:
die, expire, perish, pass away

Types:
animate, resurrect, regenerate, reanimate, vivify, more...

Phrases:
Come Back Alive, The Roots Come Alive, come alive again, to come alive, more...

Adjectives:
freshment, resuscitate, rear, reanimate, animate, repressed, refreshful, awakening, recrudescent, refreshing, fresh

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Similar:
awaken, waken, wake up, wake, arouse, awake, come to life, bring to life, reawaken, reanimate, more...

Opposite:
die, expire, perish, pass away

Types:
animate, resurrect, regenerate, reanimate, vivify, more...

Phrases:
Come Back Alive, The Roots Come Alive, come alive again, to come alive, more...

Adjectives:
freshment, resuscitate, rear, reanimate, animate, repressed, refreshful, awakening, recrudescent, refreshing, fresh



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