resuscitate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Verb[edit]
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[edit]
- (to regain consciousness): come to
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
restore consciousness
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regain consciousness
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Adjective[edit]
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 1049141463, 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[edit]
- “resuscitate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “resuscitate” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- resuscitate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
resuscitate
- inflection of resuscitare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
resuscitate f pl
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
resuscitāte
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