Resuscitate

[rɪ'sʌsɪteɪt] or [rɪ'sʌsɪtet]

Definition

(verb.) cause to regain consciousness; 'The doctors revived the comatose man'.

Checked by Claudia--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Restored to life.

(v. t.) To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

(v. i.) To come to life again; to revive.

Edited by Benson

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Revivify, reanimate, revive, quicken, restore to life, recall to life, bring back to life.

Edited by Albert

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Revive, re-excite, reanimate, reinvigorate, revivify

ANT:Extinguish, lay, prostrate, quench

Checker: Melanie

Definition

v.t. to revive to revivify.—v.i. to revive: to awaken and come to life again.—adjs. Resus′citable; Resus′citant.—n. one who or that which resuscitates.—n. Resuscitā′tion act of reviving from a state of apparent death: state of being revivified.—adj. Resus′citātive tending to resuscitate: reviving: revivifying: reanimating.—n. Resus′citātor one who resuscitates.—Resuscitative faculty the reproductive faculty of the mind.

Typist: Veronica