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Definition: Resuscitate |
ResuscitateVerb1. Cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resuscitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are being resuscitated, denotes that you will have heavy losses, but will eventually regain more than you lose, and happiness will attend you. To resuscitate another, you will form new friendships, which will give you prominence and pleasure. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ResuscitateSynonym: revive (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reproduction | Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge. |
Restoration | Resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Resuscitate |
| English words defined with "resuscitate": Resuscitating, Resuscitative ♦ To bring to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "resuscitate": Resuscitate. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Volunteers rush to bring an injured bird to the boat that will transport the pelican to wildlife rehabilitators who will attempt to resuscitate the bird. Successful rehabilitation depends upon a number of factors including the length of entanglement and exposure to the elements.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is important to resuscitate patients and correct coagulopathy as completely as possible before endoscopic hemostatic therapy. (references) | |
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| "Resuscitate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Resuscitate" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 97.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
not resuscitate | 47 |
resuscitate | 16 |
not order resuscitate | 11 |
form not resuscitate | 7 |
not public resuscitate school | 2 |
louisiana not resuscitate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "resuscitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ringjall (raise, raise from the dead, reactivate, reanimate, regenerate, resurrect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إنتعش (be revived, brisk, come alive, pep up, perk up, pull oneself together, rally, recover, refresh, restart, revive), أحيا (enliven, inspirit, renovate, restore, resurrect, revitalize, revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съживявам (animate, awake, enliven, galvanize, pull round, raise, rally, reanimate, regenerate, renovate, resurrect, revive, revivify, wake), възраждам се (regenerate), възкръсвам (arise, resurrect, rise, wake), възкресявам (raise from the dead, resurrect, revive, wake), възобновявам (reedify, resurrect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | resuscitovat, vzkřísit (bring round, reanimate, resurrect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زنده کردن (Quicken, Resurrect), اجحیاکردن , بهوش اوردن (Sober). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virvoittaa (invigorate, refresh, revive), elvyttää (animate, enliven, quicken, restore, revive, stimulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réanimer (revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederbeleben (recreate, resurrect, resusciate, revival, revive, revivify, to resusciate, to resuscitate, to revive, to revivify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεκρανασταίνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | להחיות (animate, enliven, freshen, liven, quicken, refresh, revive, vitalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feltámaszt (resurrect, to chock up, to resurrect, to resuscitate, to revitalize), feléled (revive, to come to life, to rally, to rebound, to rekindle, to resuscitate, to revive, to wake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menafasi (revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risuscitare (resurrect, revive, rise again), rianimarsi (perk up, revive), rianimare (cheer up, enliven, quicken, rally, reanimate, recover oneself, refresh, revive, take heart again, wake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 生かす (to make use of, to resuscitate, to revive), 活かす (to make use of, to resuscitate, to revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いかす (to make use of, to resuscitate, to revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esuscitateray ressuscitar (get-at-able, resurrect, revive, rise, wake), regressar à vida, trazer novamente à vida. (various references) reînvia (reanimate, resurrect, revive, rip up), învia (raise, reanimate, resurge, resurrect, revive). (various references) воскрешать (resurrect, revitalize). (various references) oživeti (animate, come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, recuperate, revitalize, revive, vivify). (various references) resucitar (quicken, raise, resurrect, revive). (various references) återuppliva (revitalize, revive). (various references) yaşama döndürmek (bestow hand on smb., restore smb. to life, resurrect), hayata dönmek (revive), diriltmek (animate, bring to life, resurrect, revitalize, revive, revivify, vitalize), dirilmek (arise from dead, revive), ayıltmak (bring round, bring smb. to his senses, bring through, sober, sober up). (various references) оживати (quicken, wake), оживляти (animate, revitalize, vitalize, vivify), опритомнювати (revive). (various references) dadebru (revive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resuscitate": resuscitated, resuscitates. (additional references) | |
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"Resuscitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reassociate, rescuscitate, resucitate, resusitate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resuscitate" (pronounced rusu"sutā't or rēsu"sutā't) |
| 5 | -s u t ā' t | acetate, incapacitate, necessitate. |
| 4 | -u t ā' t | agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, debilitate, decapitate, facilitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, militate, precipitate, premeditate, rehabilitate, vegetate. |
| 3 | -t ā' t | devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate. |
| 5 | -s u t ā' t | acetate, incapacitate, necessitate. |
| 4 | -u t ā' t | agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, debilitate, decapitate, facilitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, militate, precipitate, premeditate, rehabilitate, vegetate. |
| 3 | -t ā' t | devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rusticates. | |
-2 letters: austerest, catteries, causeries, cauteries, cerusites, cerussite, creasiest, crustiest, curtesies, cutesiest, eructates, estuaries, eustacies, icteruses, rusticate, secateurs, sectaries, sestertia, suricates, tesseract, tessitura, tessiture, testacies, treatises, urticates. | |
-3 letters: ariettes, artistes, artsiest, astricts, casettes, cassette, cateress, causerie, cerastes, cerusite, citrates, citruses, cristate, curettes, curtsies, cutesier, eructate, estreats, eucrites, eustatic, iterates, restates, retastes, rictuses, rustiest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: resuscitated, resuscitates. | |
+2 letters: resuscitative. | |
+3 letters: articulateness. | |
+4 letters: semitranslucent, submetacentrics, superactivities. | |
+5 letters: articulatenesses, counterinstances, electroacoustics, inarticulateness, overenthusiastic, unattractiveness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 75 73 63 69 74 61 74 65 |
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