Resuscitate - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitō (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitō (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citō (“to summon, rouse”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

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• Hyphenation: re‧sus‧ci‧tate

Verb

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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
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: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.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 160:An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.
   • 2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times‎[1], →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.
2. (intransitive) To regain consciousness. Synonym: come to

Derived terms

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• autoresuscitate
• overresuscitate
• resuscitator
• underresuscitate
• unresuscitated

Related terms

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

Translations

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Arabic: أَنْعَشَ (ʔanʕaša) Basque: berpiztu Bulgarian: съживявам (bg) (sǎživjavam) Chinese: Cantonese: 救活 (gau3 wut6), 令……恢復清醒 / 令……恢复清醒 (ling6... fui1 fuk6 cing1 sing2) Mandarin: 救活 (zh) (jiùhuó), 使……復活 / 使……复活 (shǐ... fùhuó) Czech: resuscitovat impf or pf, oživit pf, vzkřísit (cs) pf, přivést k vědomí pf Danish: genoplive (da) Dutch: reanimeren (nl) 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

regain consciousness

Bulgarian: идвам в съзнание (idvam v sǎznanie) Chinese: Mandarin: 恢復知覺 / 恢复知觉 (huīfù zhījué) Finnish: virota (fi), palata tajuihinsa, tulla tajuihinsa Georgian: გამოფხიზლება (gamopxizleba) German: Bewusstsein wiedererlangen, wieder zu sich kommen Hungarian: (especially physically) újraéled (hu), (only figuratively) újjáéled (hu) Italian: resuscitare (it) Japanese: 蘇生する (そせいする, sosei suru) Latin: resuscito Russian: очну́ться (ru) (očnútʹsja), приходи́ть в созна́ние (prixodítʹ v soznánije) Swedish: kvickna till, komma till liv

Adjective

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resuscitate (not comparable)

1. (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

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• “resuscitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “resuscitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “resuscitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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resuscitate

1. inflection of resuscitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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resuscitate f pl

1. feminine plural of resuscitato

Latin

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Verb

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resuscitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of resuscitō