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Definition of Resurrect
1. Verb. Cause to become alive again. "Upraising ghosts"
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"
Generic synonyms: Regenerate, Rejuvenate, Restore
Specialized synonyms: Republish
Derivative terms: Revival
3. Verb. Return from the dead. "The dead are to 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
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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