resuscitate

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English

Etymology

From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitāre (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitāre (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citāre (“to summon, rouse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb

resuscitate (third-person singular simple present resuscitates, present participle resuscitating, simple past and past participle resuscitated)

  1. (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
    to resuscitate a drowned person
    to resuscitate withered plants
    • 2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      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.
    Synonym: come to

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Translations

Adjective

resuscitate (not comparable)

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

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

resuscitate

  1. inflection of resuscitare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

resuscitate f pl

  1. feminine plural of resuscitato

Latin

Verb

resuscitāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of resuscitō
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