Meanings
present singular third person resuscitates · participle present resuscitating · participle past resuscitated · past resuscitated
- transitiveTo restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
to resuscitate withered plants
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to resuscitate a drowned person
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeAn old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 160Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall.
2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- not comparableobsoleteRestored to life.
[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.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo regain consciousness.
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Origin
- Latinresuscitātus
- Englishresuscitate
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”).
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Arabic أَنْعَشَ
- أَنْعَشَ (ʔanʕaša)restore consciousness
Basque berpiztu
- berpizturestore consciousness
Bulgarian съживявам, идвам в съзнание
- съживявам (săživjavam)restore consciousness
- идвам в съзнание (idvam v săznanie)regain consciousness
Chinese Cantonese 救活, 令……恢復清醒 /令……恢复清醒
- 救活 (gau³ wut⁶)restore consciousness
- 令……恢復清醒 /令……恢复清醒 (ling⁶... fui¹ fuk⁶ cing¹ sing²)restore consciousness
Chinese Mandarin 救活, 使……復活 /使……复活
- 救活 (jiùhuó)restore consciousness
- 使……復活 /使……复活 (shǐ... fùhuó)restore consciousness
- 恢復知覺 /恢复知觉 (huīfù zhījué)regain consciousness
Czech resuscitovat, oživit
- resuscitovatrestore consciousness
- oživitrestore consciousness
- vzkřísitrestore consciousness
- přivést k vědomírestore consciousness
Danish genoplive
- genopliverestore consciousness
Dutch reanimeren
- reanimerenrestore consciousness
Finnish elvyttää, virota
- elvyttäärestore consciousness
- virotaregain consciousness
- palata tajuihinsaregain consciousness
- tulla tajuihinsaregain consciousness
French ressusciter
- ressusciterrestore consciousness
German wiederbeleben, reanimieren
- wiederbelebenrestore consciousness
- reanimierenrestore consciousness
- Bewusstsein wiedererlangenregain consciousness
- wieder zu sich kommenregain consciousness
Hebrew ביצע החייאה
- ביצע החייאה (bitséa hakhyaá)restore consciousness
Hungarian újraéleszt, újjáéleszt
- újraélesztrestore consciousness
- újjáélesztrestore consciousness
- újraéledregain consciousness
- újjáéledregain consciousness
Italian resuscitare, resuscitare
- resuscitarerestore consciousness
- resuscitareregain consciousness
Japanese 蘇生させる, 蘇生する
- 蘇生させる (sosei saseru)restore consciousness
- 蘇生する (sosei suru)regain consciousness
Latin resuscito, resuscito
- resuscitorestore consciousness
- resuscitoregain consciousness
Romanian reanima, reînvia
- reanimarestore consciousness
- reînviarestore consciousness
- resuscitarestore consciousness
- renașterestore consciousness
Russian оживлять, приводи́ть в созна́ние
- оживлять (oživljatʹ)restore consciousness
- приводи́ть в созна́ние (privodítʹ v soznánije)restore consciousness
- реанимировать (reanimirovatʹ)restore consciousness
- очну́ться (očnútʹsja)regain consciousness
- приходи́ть в созна́ние (prixodítʹ v soznánije)regain consciousness
Spanish resucitar, resucitar
- resucitarrestore consciousness
- resucitarregain consciousness
Swedish återuppliva, kvickna till
- återupplivarestore consciousness
- kvickna tillregain consciousness
- komma till livregain consciousness
Vietnamese hồi sinh, hồi sức
- hồi sinhrestore consciousness
- hồi sứcrestore consciousness
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