Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To restore consciousness or other signs of life to (one who appears dead).
- transitive verb To restore to use, activity, vigor, or notice; reinvigorate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stir up anew; revivify; revive; particularly, to recover from apparent death: as, to
resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants. - To revive; come to life again.
- Restored to life; revived.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Restored to life.
- transitive verb To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death
- intransitive verb To come to life again; to revive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
restore consciousness ,vigor , orlife to. - verb intransitive To
regain consciousness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb return to consciousness
- verb cause to regain consciousness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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(Then again, it was going to be punctuated by my astute observation that even skinny young undergraduates look silly and – sorry – fat in this stupid belted-sweater look that some moron decided to resuscitate from the 80’s.
So, is this about feminism, or my neuroses? You decide! | Her Bad Mother 2006
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We need a discussion about how the western economies have been transformed to manufacturers in to a credit driven society -- and simply attempting to "resuscitate" credit is not in any way adequate.
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Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: This morning, I found myself going through old shoes in the closet, seeing which ones I could "resuscitate" with new shoe laces.
Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism 2008
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This morning, I found myself going through old shoes in the closet, seeing which ones I could "resuscitate" with new shoe laces.
Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism 2008
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Mr. Lee sees corporate and foreign direct investment as the major forces to "resuscitate" the local economy.
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This morning, I found myself going through old shoes in the closet, seeing which ones I could "resuscitate" with new shoe laces.
Printing: Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism 2008
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While there's a chance SAP will try to "resuscitate" NetWeaver development in an effort to catch up to those rivals, "the likelihood of this happening is very low," Rymer added.
Reseller News 2010
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While there's a chance SAP will try to "resuscitate" NetWeaver development in an effort to catch up to those rivals, "the likelihood of this happening is very low," Rymer added.
CIO News 2010
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Besides cracking down on customs fraud and illegal imports, government would use its trade policies, including tariffs to create and "resuscitate" certain industries, such as the clothing and textile sector which was struggling to compete with cheaper Chinese imports.
IOL: News 2010
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While there's a chance SAP will try to "resuscitate" NetWeaver development in an effort to catch up to those rivals, "the likelihood of this happening is very low," Rymer added.
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