resuscitate
verb (used with object)
to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
resuscitates
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present tense formof resuscitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It also licenses and resuscitates iconic brands that have fallen on hard times such as Polaroid and provides consulting services to companies.
From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023
This month, Saar added an outdoor sculpture to her show at the Armory: “Catfish Dreamin’,” which resuscitates an early public work that she first staged in Baltimore in 1993.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
She gets hold of a friendly junk-yard owner’s ancient yellow Volkswagen Beetle, resuscitates it, and brings it home.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
Based on Paddy Chayefsky's biting script, the film portrays a TV anchorman who briefly resuscitates his fading career by launching on-air tirades against what he perceives as the hypocrisies of American society.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2011
Here the saint resuscitates horses with holy water; but in this case the saint's own curse had originally caused the horses' deaths, because they grazed in his churchyard.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister
