Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/
- Hyphenation: re‧sus‧ci‧tate
Verb
resuscitate (third-person singular simple present resuscitates, present participle resuscitating, simple past and past participle resuscitated)
- (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
to resuscitate a drowned person
to resuscitate withered plants
2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: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.
- (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
- Synonym: come to
Translations
restore consciousness
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: berpiztu
- Bulgarian: съживявам (bg) (sǎživjavam)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 令恢復清醒/令恢复清醒 (ling6 fui1 fuk6 cing1 sing2)
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: resuscitovat impf or pf, oživit pf, vzkřísit (cs) pf, přivést k vědomí pf
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: elvyttää (fi)
- French: ressusciter (fr)
- Georgian: გაცოცხლება (gacocxleba)
- German: wiederbeleben (de), reanimieren (de)
- Hebrew: ביצע החייאה (bitséa hakhyaá)
- Hungarian: (especially physically) újraéleszt (hu), (only figuratively) újjáéleszt (hu)
- Italian: resuscitare (it)
- Japanese: 蘇生させる (そせいさせる, sosei saseru)
- Latin: resuscito
- Maore Comorian: uɓaâthi
- Romanian: reanima (ro), reînvia (ro), resuscita (ro), renaște (ro)
- Russian: оживлять (ru) (oživljatʹ), приводи́ть в созна́ние (privodítʹ v soznánije), реанимировать (ru) (reanimirovatʹ)
- Spanish: resucitar (es)
- Swedish: återuppliva (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: hồi sinh (vi), hồi sức
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Adjective
resuscitate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Restored to life.
1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, canto 2, stanza 21, page 16:[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.
Further reading
- “resuscitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “resuscitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “resuscitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.