resuscitate
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Definition of resuscitate
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
“to resuscitate a drowned person”
“to resuscitate withered plants”
“An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.”
“Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall.”
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verb
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(transitive)To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
“to resuscitate a drowned person”
“to resuscitate withered plants”
“An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.”
“Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall.”
- (intransitive)To regain consciousness.
adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Restored to life.
“[O]nce return'd / Unto her body new reſuſcitate / From ſleep, remembring well how erſt ſhe mourn'd, / Marvels how all ſo ſoon to peace and eaſe is turn'd.”
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Etymology
From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitō (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitō (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citō (“to summon, rouse”).
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