transitive verb resumed, resuming
- to take, get, or occupy again: to resume one's seat
- to take back or take on again: to resume a former name
- to begin again or go on with again after interruption: to resume a conversation
- to summarize or make a résumé of
Origin:
ME resumen, to assume < MFr resumer < L resumere < re-, again + sumere, to take: see consume
intransitive verb
to begin again or go on again after interruption