Resuscitate Definition

rĭ-sŭsĭ-tāt
resuscitated, resuscitates, resuscitating
verb
resuscitated, resuscitates, resuscitating
To revive or revitalize; bring back to life; esp., to revive (someone in a faint, apparently dead, etc.), as by artificial respiration.
Webster's New World
To restore consciousness or other signs of life to (one who appears dead).
Resuscitated the man after cardiac arrest.
American Heritage
To revive, esp. to come back to life or consciousness again.
Webster's New World
To restore to use, activity, vigor, or notice; reinvigorate.
A meeting that resuscitated his career.
American Heritage
adjective
(obsolete) Restored to life.
Wiktionary

Origin of Resuscitate

  • Latin resuscitāre resuscitāt- re- re- suscitāre to stir up (sus-, sub- sub-) (citāre to move violently) (frequentative of ciēre to set in motion keiə- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin resuscitatus, past participle of resuscitare (“to raise up again, revive"), from re- (“again") + suscitare (“to raise up"), from sub- (“up, under") + citare (“to summon, rouse").

    From Wiktionary

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