resurrect
verb (used with object)
to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
had resurrected
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past perfectof resurrect.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Coach Mike McDaniel had resurrected the career of Tagovailoa, a former No. 5 overall pick in 2020 who initially struggled in the league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Chávez had resurrected Guaicaipuro as a national hero, ordering that his remains be symbolically reinterred in the National Pantheon.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
The French Revolution had resurrected the idea of democracy – and produced a hecatomb on a grand scale.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2018
Tony Abbott, his predecessor, had resurrected them—40 years after they had been consigned to history as a quaint relic of Australia’s British colonial past.
From Economist ● Nov. 5, 2015
He had resurrected it reverently, rubbed it down, put it together, and varnished it.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
