Meaning

(transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
2. (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
3. (obsolete) Restored to life.

Example Sentences

to resuscitate a drowned person

to resuscitate withered plants

Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.

An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.

Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall.

[O]nce return'd / Unto her body new reſuſcitate / From ſleep, remembring well how erſt ſhe mourn'd, / Marvels how all ſo ſoon to peace and eaſe is turn'd.

Word Forms

• resuscitates
• resuscitating
• resuscitated

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