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Resuming

Resume \Re*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. r['e]sumer. See Assume, Redeem.]

  1. To take back.

    The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.
    --Denham.

    Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To enter upon, or take up again.

    Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.
    --Dryden.

  3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

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resuming

vb. (present participle of resume English)

Usage examples of "resuming".

The implication is clearly that they're actively contemplating resuming hostilities, and if they're willing to do so in an area as far from our strategic center as Silesia, then they're certainly willing to do it somewhere closer to home, as well.

As I left him, resuming his stool and his pen, and rolling his head in his stock, to get it into easier writing order, I clearly perceived that there was something interposed between him and me, since he had come into his new functions, which prevented our getting at each other as we used to do, and quite altered the character of our intercourse.

Up went his hands in a gesture of exasperation, one descending with a loud clap to his knee, the other to resuming its remorseless probing.

Before resuming his meditations he offered a brief prayer of thanks for the gift of a companion to relieve the silence of his imprisonment.

M'shall began, having taken note that most of the male dragons' eyes were resuming normal colour and speed.

So there's no formal treaty to dissuade them from resuming the war any time they choose.

But tell me, Shannon—if the Manties did plan on retaining all of the occupied planets and systems, would you be in favor of resuming operations against them if what you've been building out here really does level the tactical balance?

That it could actually, God help us all, create a fresh public support for resuming the war.

At the very least, however, we're going to have to announce that we're resuming construction on at least some of the incomplete SD(P)s and CLACs.

So to the best of my knowledge, there's absolutely no domestic or interstellar legal obstacle to our resuming military operations at any time we choose.

Personally, I find the notion of resuming active operations the least appetizing of any of them, but I don't think we can afford to overlook it.

I really cannot over emphasize my opposition to resuming active military operations if there's any possible alternative.

Traddles,' replied Uriah, resuming his official seat, and squeezing his bony hands, laid palm to palm between his bony knees.

Once again his eyes darted from Becky to Charlie before resuming to Mrs.

Trentham referred to them, would, she told everyone, be spending their honeymoon on the family estate in Aberdeen before resuming to a mews house in Cadogan Place that she had selected for them.