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resuscitate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

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. 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, canto 2, stanza 21, page 16:

resuscitate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
   • to resuscitate a drowned person
   • Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation. 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
   • 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. 2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • 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. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 160:
2. (intransitive) To regain consciousness.

Forms

Deriveds

overresuscitate · underresuscitate · unresuscitated · autoresuscitate · resuscitator

Relateds

unresuscitative · nonresuscitative · nonresuscitable · unresuscitated · resuscitation · resuscitative · unresuscitable · unresuscitating · nonresuscitation · resuscitable

Synonyms

come to

Translations (54)

bg съживявам (restore consciousness) · ru приводи́ть в созна́ние (restore consciousness) · it resuscitare (restore consciousness) · cs vzkřísit (restore consciousness) · la resuscito (regain consciousness) · ru очну́ться (regain consciousness) · fi palata tajuihinsa (regain consciousness) · nl reanimeren (restore consciousness) · cmn 恢復知覺 /恢复知觉 (regain consciousness) · yue 令……恢復清醒 /令……恢复清醒 (restore consciousness) · ka გამოფხიზლება (regain consciousness) · fi tulla tajuihinsa (regain consciousness) · sv komma till liv (regain consciousness) · es resucitar (restore consciousness) · eu berpiztu (restore consciousness) · ja 蘇生する (regain consciousness) · ar أَنْعَشَ (restore consciousness) · ru реанимировать (restore consciousness) · de wiederbeleben (restore consciousness) · ja 蘇生させる (restore consciousness) · cmn 救活 (restore consciousness) · cs oživit (restore consciousness) · hu újraéleszt (restore consciousness) · sv återuppliva (restore consciousness) · de wieder zu sich kommen (regain consciousness) · ro renaște (restore consciousness) · hu újraéled (regain consciousness) · swb uɓaâthi (restore consciousness) · cs přivést k vědomí (restore consciousness) · ro resuscita (restore consciousness) · ro reanima (restore consciousness) · bg идвам в съзнание (regain consciousness) · ru приходи́ть в созна́ние (regain consciousness) · hu újjáéled (regain consciousness) · ka გაცოცხლება (restore consciousness) · de reanimieren (restore consciousness) · yue 救活 (restore consciousness) · ru оживлять (restore consciousness) · he ביצע החייאה (restore consciousness) · it resuscitare (regain consciousness) · sv kvickna till (regain consciousness) · cmn 使……復活 /使……复活 (restore consciousness) · ro reînvia (restore consciousness) · fr ressusciter (restore consciousness) · es resucitar (regain consciousness) · vi hồi sinh (restore consciousness) · fi elvyttää (restore consciousness) · cs resuscitovat (restore consciousness) · da genoplive (restore consciousness) · vi hồi sức (restore consciousness) · de Bewusstsein wiedererlangen (regain consciousness) · la resuscito (restore consciousness) · hu újjáéleszt (restore consciousness) · fi virota (regain consciousness)