resuscitate

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

Definition of resuscitate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (intransitive)To regain consciousness.

adj

  1. (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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