Definition of Resurrect

1. Verb. Cause to become alive again. "Upraising ghosts"

Exact synonyms: Raise, Upraise
Generic synonyms: Resuscitate, Revive
Related verbs: Rise, Uprise
Derivative terms: Resurrection

2. Verb. Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state. "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
Exact synonyms: Revive
Generic synonyms: Regenerate, Rejuvenate, Restore
Specialized synonyms: Republish
Derivative terms: Revival

3. Verb. Return from the dead. "The dead are to uprise"
Exact synonyms: Rise, Uprise
Related verbs: Raise, Upraise
Generic synonyms: Return
Derivative terms: Rise

Definition of Resurrect

1. v. t. To take from the grave; to disinter.

Definition of Resurrect

1. Verb. (transitive) To raise from the dead, to bring life back to. ¹

2. Verb. To re-use. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To bring to view or attention. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resurrect

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resurrect

resupplying
resurface
resurfaced
resurfacer
resurfacers
resurfaces
resurfacing
resurge
resurged
resurgence
resurgences
resurgent
resurges
resurging
resurgings
resurrect (current term)
resurrected
resurrecting
resurrection
resurrection fern
resurrection plant
resurrectional
resurrectionist
resurrectionists
resurrectionize
resurrectionized
resurrectionizes
resurrectionizing
resurrections
resurrector

Literary usage of Resurrect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Usage: Studies in the History and Uses of English Words and Phrases by John Lesslie Hall (1917)
"CIV resurrect The verb resurrect is denounced so vehemently in most of the textbooks and dictionaries that one would hardly expect to find it in the ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"Heaven forbid that any child of Albion or Erin should seek to resurrect the ghosts of those crime-blackened centuries! Let them remain, amid the countless ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1901)
"Heaven forbid that any child of Albion or Erin should seek to resurrect the ghosts of those crime-blackened centuries! Let them remain, amid the countless ..."

4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"... I resurrect the whole ! put them in scene again on the living stage, every one with the best of his works in his hand. ..."

5. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1832)
"... inde venturus judicare vivos et mortuos : Et in Spiritual Sanctum; sanctam Ecclesiam ; remissionem peccatorum ; carnis resurrect! onem. ..."

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