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Definition of Resuscitate

1. Verb. Cause to regain consciousness. "The doctors revived the comatose man"

2. Verb. Return to consciousness. "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

Definition of Resuscitate

1. a. Restored to life.

2. v. t. To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

3. v. i. To come to life again; to revive.

Definition of Resuscitate

1. Verb. (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to. ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Resuscitate

1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]

Medical Definition of Resuscitate

1. To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants. Origin: Resuscitated; Resuscitating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resuscitate

resurrectionized resurrectionizes resurrectionizing resurrections resurrector resurrectors resurrects resurvey resurveyed resurveying

resurveys resus resuscitable resuscitant resuscitants resuscitate (current term) resuscitated resuscitates resuscitating resuscitation

resuscitation orders resuscitations resuscitative resuscitator resuscitators resuspend resuspended resuspending resuspends resuspension

Literary usage of Resuscitate

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

1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"resuscitate halting-place,' which (like OHG rasia) is from Teut. root *ras, ... L. re-, again ; surf ere, to rise ; see Surge. resuscitate, to revive. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"... the consent of the mortgagee resuscitate the mortgage.—Ed.] judice to the question, whether the estate was redeemable or not, whenever it should be ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... his massacres and proscriptions; the abortive attempts of Lepidus and Brutus (father of the so-called tyrannicide) to resuscitate the Marian faction; ..."

4. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... were made to resuscitate the lost art: some of the books and instruments were recovered from their hiding places; but the times were not favourable for ..."

5. Elements of Military Art and History: Comprising the History and Tactics of by Edouard La Barre Duparcq, Nicolas Édouard Delabarre-Duparcq, George Washington Cullum (1863)
"From the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Swiss were compelled by necessity to resuscitate the ancient infantry, both because they were too poor to ..."

6. Biblical Standpoint: Views of the Sonship of Christ, the Comforter, and by Asa Wilbur (1875)
"He could thus re-enter and restore that body to life, after it had lain in the tomb until the third day, as easily as he could resuscitate Lazarus when he ..."

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