resuscitate

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

resuscitate (third-person singular simple present resuscitates, present participle resuscitating, simple past and past participle resuscitated)

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

   to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants

2. (intransitive) To regain consciousness.

• (to regain consciousness): come to

• resuscitable
• resuscitation
• resuscitative
• nonresuscitable
• nonresuscitation
• nonresuscitative
• unresuscitable
• unresuscitated
• unresuscitating
• unresuscitative

resuscitate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Restored to life.

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• resuscitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resuscitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• resuscitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

resuscitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of resuscitare
2. second-person plural imperative of resuscitare
3. feminine plural of resuscitato

resuscitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of resuscitō