How do you pronounce resuscitate?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/.

resuscitate

/ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English

Syllables: re-sus-ci-tate
IPA: /ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

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Meaning

verb

To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.

Transitive verb

verb

To regain consciousness.

Intransitive verb

adj

Restored to life.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"to resuscitate a drowned person"
"to resuscitate withered plants"
"Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. 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."
"An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated."
"Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall."
"[O]nce return'd / Unto her body new reſuſcitate / From ſleep, remembring well how erſt ſhe mourn'd, / Marvels how all ſo ſoon to peace and eaſe is turn'd."

Etymology

From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitō (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitō (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citō (“to summon, rouse”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *keyh₂-, resuscitātus

Usage

Inflected Forms

resuscitates (present, singular) resuscitating (participle, present) resuscitated (participle, past) resuscitated (past)

Derived Forms

autoresuscitate overresuscitate resuscitator underresuscitate unresuscitated

Frequently Paired Words

nonresuscitable nonresuscitation nonresuscitative resuscitable resuscitation resuscitative unresuscitable unresuscitated

Synonyms

come to revive