resuscitate
/ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/ verb, adjective
Forms resuscitates resuscitating resuscitated
- verb (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to. “to resuscitate a drowned person”
- verb (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
- adjective (obsolete) Restored to life.
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Etymology
From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitō (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitō (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citō (“to summon, rouse”).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.
- verb To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
- verb To come to life again; to revive.
Etymology [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “resuscitate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details