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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resuscitate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
▪ Officers tried to resuscitate him but he did not regain consciousness.
▪ Why didn't you at least try to resuscitate her, give her the kiss of life?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again the dwarfs resuscitated Snow White.
▪ Meanwhile, Farini had been hired to resuscitate the failing fortunes of the Royal Westminster Aquarium.
▪ Officers tried to resuscitate him but he did not regain consciousness.
▪ She had been resuscitated and her condition improved.
▪ The doctor examined her, found a faint pulse, and immediately swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
▪ They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor hadn't remembered his diagnosis.
▪ We can only resuscitate, we can't resurrect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resuscitate

Resuscitate \Re*sus"ci*tate\, a. [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.] Restored to life. [R.]
--Bp. Gardiner.

Resuscitate

Resuscitate \Re*sus"ci*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.] To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

Resuscitate

Resuscitate \Re*sus"ci*tate\, v. i. To come to life again; to revive.

These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate.
--J. S. Mill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resuscitate

early 15c., "revive, restore," from Latin resuscitatus, past participle of resuscitare "rouse again, revive," from re- "again" (see re-) + suscitare "to raise, revive," from sub "(up from) under" (see sub-) + citare "to summon" (see cite). Intransitive use from 1650s. Related: Resuscitated; resuscitating. Earlier was resuscen "restore (someone) to life, resurrect" (c.1400).

Wiktionary
resuscitate
  1. (context obsolete English) Restored to life. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to. 2 (context intransitive English) To regain consciousness.

WordNet
resuscitate
  1. v. cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: revive]

  2. return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, revive]

Wikipedia
Resuscitate (album)

Resuscitate is the second studio album by contemporary Christian music band Remedy Drive. It was released on September 18, 2012 through Centricity Music. The album was produced by Peter Kipley at The Bomb Shelter in Brentwood, Tennessee.

The first radio single was "Better Than Life" that charted at No. 46 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart. "Resuscitate Me" was the No. 1 Billboard Christian Rock song. The album debut on the Billboard Christian and Heatseekers Albums charts at Nos. 23 and 20 respectively.

Usage examples of "resuscitate".

They vary in scale from the single tiresome litigious individual with an old-fashioned clutching mind, through a long range of associations, cities and provincial councils, to the resuscitated sovereign governments of the war period.

But now the reviving nationalisms, the resuscitating social and commercial interests of the moribund old world system, were acutely aware of the immense significance of events at Basra, and there had gathered an assemblage of delegations, reporters, adventurers, friends and camp followers of every description, far exceeding the numbers of the actual Fellows.

The mother died from peritonitis and collapse, but the stillborn child was resuscitated.

Fison supposes that in the sexual licence and suspension of the rights of private property which characterise these festivals we have a reminiscence of a time when women and property were held in common by the community, and the motive for temporarily resuscitating these obsolete customs was a wish to propitiate the ancestral spirits, who were thought to be gratified by witnessing a revival of that primitive communism which they themselves had practised in the flesh so long ago.

I can say I became a doctor, when all the theory suddenly became clear-cut action, it was the night we resuscitated her.

Others had been resuscitated and stabilized, only to succumb to secondary infections that swiftly developed into toxic shock.

Three had been dead so long that, once resuscitated, brain damage was either too severe to allow them to regain consciousness or, if they were conscious, too extensive to allow them to lead anything like a normal life.

It was then he baptized the pregnant woman and her offspring, and resuscitated another.

Being resuscitated, she preached to the multitudes of the pains of hell and the rewards of heaven, and with tears prayed her brother that he would believe for God and Patrick, which was done, and he was baptized.

And he baptized Eochaidh, son of Nathi, son of Fiachra, and resuscitated his wife Echtra, at Ath-Echtra, the little stream at the very door of Cill-mor.

Now, after that Patrick had founded cells and churches in Munster, and had ordained persons for every grade, and healed all sick persons, and resuscitated the dead, he bade them farewell, and left his blessing with them.

It was here Patrick resuscitated Fot, son of Derad, a Munsterman, who had been twenty-seven years dead.

In the presence of eminent physicians, and other scientific persons, he resuscitated an alligator which had been killed by tying the trachea.

One pedestrian skittered and tumbled, sending parcels every-whichway, another wet herself, a third keeled slantwise and the walk was stopped automatically by the servitors till she could be resuscitated.

One pedestrian skittered and tumbled, sending parcels everywhichway, another wet herself, a third keeled slantwise, and the walk was stopped automatically by the servitors till she could be resuscitated.