RESUSCITATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they resuscitate ... he / she / it resuscitates

Past simple: resuscitated

Past participle: resuscitated

-ing form: resuscitating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return to consciousness

Example:

She revived after the doctor gave her an injection

Synonyms:

come to; resuscitate; revive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to regain consciousness

Example:

The doctors revived the comatose man

Synonyms:

resuscitate; revive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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)