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US
/ɹiˈsəsɪˌteɪt, ɹɪˈsəsɪˌteɪt/
]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈʌsɪtˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈʌsɪtˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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return to consciousness
The patient came to quickly
She revived after the doctor gave her an injection -
cause to regain consciousness
The doctors revived the comatose man
How To Use resuscitate In A Sentence
- After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
- A personal physician first tried to resuscitate Michael Jackson at his home before paramedics arrived.
- Like a number of recent American poets who have done a lot to resuscitate genre, narrative, wit, and craft, the student said there needs to be a development of traditional techniques and genres to create more public forms.
- It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
- The ambulance crew swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
- Nevertheless, they spent an hour trying to resuscitate William.
- They take his body aboard their spacecraft and proceed to try to resuscitate him, completely unaware of who he is.
- Recent discoveries have resuscitated this never quite abandoned theory; protyle seems to have been discovered, and the atom has ceased to hold its place as the ultimate division of matter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- So Newt Gingrich can campaign on family values while abandoning a succession of wives for more nubile alternatives; Bill Clinton's extra-mural activities have to be shoved under the carpet in a celebrated TV interview (with his wife loyally at his side) before he can resuscitate his endangered candidacy in 1992. Shashi Tharoor: Importance of appearing to be earnest
