resurrect

English

Etymology

Back-formation from resurrection.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

resurrect (third-person singular simple present resurrects, present participle resurrecting, simple past and past participle resurrected)

1. (transitive) To raise from the dead, to bring life back to.

   Synonym: revive

2. (intransitive) To rise from the dead; return to life.
3. (transitive) To restore to a working state.
4. (transitive) To bring back to view or attention; reinstate.
   • 2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 28:

     Why resurrect the idea almost 25 years later?

Translations

to raise from dead

• Arabic: أَحْيَا (ʔaḥyā), بَعَثَ (baʕaṯa)
• Azerbaijani: diriltmək (intransitive)
• Bulgarian: съживявам (bg) (sǎživjavam)
• Catalan: ressuscitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 復活／复活 (zh) (fùhuó), 死而復生／死而复生 (sǐ'ér fùshēng)

• Dutch: herrijzen (nl)
• Esperanto: reviviĝi
• Finnish: nousta kuolleista, nousta ylös kuolleista
• French: ressusciter (fr)
• Georgian: გაცოცხლება (gacocxleba)
• German: wiederbeleben (de)
• Greek: ανασταίνω (el) (anastaíno)

  Ancient: ἀνίστημι (anístēmi)

• Japanese: 蘇らせる (yomigaeraseru)
• Norwegian: gjenopplive
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: въскрьснѫти (vŭskrĭsnǫti)

  Glagolitic: ⰲⱏⱄⰽⱃⱐⱄⱀⱘⱅⰻ (vŭskrĭsnǫti)

• Polish: wskrzeszać impf, wskrzesić pf
• Portuguese: ressuscitar (pt)
• Romanian: reînvia (ro)
• Russian: воскреша́ть (ru) impf (voskrešátʹ), воскреси́ть (ru) pf (voskresítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀скрснути

  Latin: ùskrsnuti (sh)

• Spanish: resucitar (es)
• Swahili: fufua (sw)
• Swedish: uppväcka (från de döda) (sv)
• Turkish: diriltmek (tr), canlandırmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: воскреша́ти impf (voskrešáty), воскреси́ти pf (voskresýty)
• Walloon: raviker (wa) (more often in the passive mode "fé raviker"), rilever (wa) (with complement "d' inte les moirts")

to restore to a working state

• Bulgarian: възобновявам (bg) (vǎzobnovjavam)
• Dutch: hergebruiken (nl), herbruiken
• Walloon: reployî, ralouwer

to bring back to view or attention