resuscitate
verb
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The 16th century was a good one for words ending in the suffix -ate. Not only did our featured word, resuscitate, breathe life into the English language but so did the verbs anticipate ("to give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to"), eradicate ("to do away with completely"), estimate ("to esteem" or "to appraise"), and perpetuate ("to make perpetual"). It was a good century for words about words, too—vocabulary, quip, and hearsay all premiered as well.
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Examples of resuscitate in a Sentence
Tamlin Magee, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024
By the time Halley read about the Saros and resuscitated it for his own use, many more centuries’ worth of multicultural effort had further refined the problem of eclipses, as the math historian Clemency Montelle described in the 2011 book Chasing Shadows.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Paciência Organic produces soap and oil from medicinal plants, resuscitating the traditions of natural healing prevalent before centuries of Catholicism and decades of communism stamped them out.
—Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
With Majors’ sentence expected to be light, observers say, there’s a path for the actor Majors to resuscitate his reputation, even in the absence of public support from his past celebrity collaborators.
—Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
China has announced a raft of measures to resuscitate a plateauing economy, even as the country's new premier warns its legions of bureaucrats to gird themselves for a period of fiscal austerity ahead.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
López has accomplished the uncommon feat of resuscitating a franchise that didn’t deserve saving.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
Paramedics transported Marcus to Research Medical Center, where doctors also tried to resuscitate him without success and pronounced him dead.
—Samantha Latson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
Despite a $400 million plan from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and city business leaders aimed at resuscitating downtown, office attendance remains below 50 percent, storefronts sit vacant and anxiety over the future of the District’s core has continued to climb.
—Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
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“Resuscitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resuscitate. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
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