resuscitate
English
Etymology
From Latin resuscitatus, past participle of resuscitare (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitare (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citare (“to summon, rouse”).
Pronunciation
Verb
resuscitate (third-person singular simple present resuscitates, present participle resuscitating, simple past and past participle resuscitated)
- (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
- to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants
- (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
Synonyms
- (to regain consciousness): come to
Related terms
Translations
restore consciousness
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regain consciousness
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Adjective
resuscitate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Restored to life.
- 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] 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
- “resuscitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “resuscitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “resuscitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
resuscitate
- inflection of resuscitare:
Etymology 2
Participle
resuscitate f pl
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) resuscitāte
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