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US
/ˌɹɛzɝˈɛkt/
]
[ UK /ɹɪsəɹˈɛkt/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsəɹˈɛkt/ ]
VERB
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return from the dead
Christ is risen!
The dead are to uprise -
cause to become alive again
Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected
raise from the dead
Upraising ghosts -
restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
He revived this style of opera
He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina
How To Use resurrect In A Sentence
- The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles.
- The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
- In spring 2002 the company resurrected Robert Joffrey's innovative multimedia ballet, Astarte, a psychedelic work that had raised a storm at its premiere.
- He thereby provides both a theology of the resurrection and a theology of the liturgy: one encounters the risen Christ in the word and in the sacrament; divine service is the fashion in which he becomes touchable to us and recognizable as the living Christ. The book by Joseph Ratzinger that "changed history"
- May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
- He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
- A high quality metaanalysis cannot resurrect poor quality clinical trials.
- Soon the most lucrative function of the resurrected orbital was as an alien adventure park.
- Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning.
- Here the devouring jaw is a symbol of corporeal disintegration; it reverses the process of reintegrating the perfected body and soul at the time of the Resurrection.