resuscitate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

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Verb

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

   • 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

Related terms

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

 

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: please add this translation if you can

regain consciousness

• Bulgarian: идвам в съзнание (idvam v sǎznanie)
• 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

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

• “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.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

resuscitate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

resuscitate f pl

1. feminine plural of resuscitato

Latin

Verb

resuscitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of resuscitō