RESUSCITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resuscitate mean? 

• RESUSCITATE (verb)
  The verb RESUSCITATE has 2 senses:

1. cause to regain consciousness

2. return to consciousness

  Familiarity information: RESUSCITATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESUSCITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resuscitate    ... he / she / it resuscitates   
Past simple: resuscitated   
Past participle: resuscitated   
-ing form: resuscitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to regain consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

resuscitate; revive

Context example:

The doctors revived the comatose man

Hypernyms (to "resuscitate" is one way to...):

bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)

Cause:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resuscitate"):

boot; bring up; reboot (cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes)

raise; resurrect; upraise (cause to become alive again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

resuscitation (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness)

resuscitator (a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

come to; resuscitate; revive

Context example:

She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

Hypernyms (to "resuscitate" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)

resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Also called do not resuscitate order.

(DNR order, NCI Dictionary)

You might want to include instructions on: • The use of dialysis and breathing machines • If you want to be resuscitated if your breathing or heartbeat stops • Tube feeding • Organ or tissue donation

(Advance Directives, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Some types of advance directives are living wills and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders.

(Advance directive, NCI Dictionary)

Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)