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RESUSCITATE
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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:
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)
