resurrect
verb (used with object)
to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
resurrects
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present tense formof resurrect (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The film resurrects the story of sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, modern day witches who face a curse that sees any man they fall in love with doomed to an early death.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
It resurrects the controversial so-called "Highway to Hel" bus journey formerly run by local company PKS Gdynia.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
In a later chapter, Toscano resurrects another ‘70s radical, the Italian literary critic Furio Jesi, whose extraordinary insights into the “religion and mythology of death” in right-wing culture were entirely new to me.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024
Blakemore’s killer memoir “Stage Blood” resurrects the early days of the National Theatre under the aegis of Laurence Olivier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The Stoics return to Heracleitus for their physics, Epicurus resurrects the atomism of Democritus.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
