resuscitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to regain consciousness
    revive.
    • The doctors revived the comatose man
  2. verb return to consciousness
    come to; revive.
    • The patient came to quickly
    • She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

WordNet

Re*sus"ci*tate adjective
Etymology
L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.
Definitions
  1. Restored to life. R. Bp. Gardiner.
Re*sus"ci*tate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Resuscitated ;present participle & verbal noun Resuscitating
Definitions
  1. To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
Re*sus"ci*tate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To come to life again; to revive.
    These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate. J. S. Mill.

Webster 1913