Other forms: resuscitated, resuscitating, resuscitates
To resuscitate is to bring somebody back to consciousness or life. Resuscitate the patient, attempts to resuscitate, do not resuscitate.
It is the technical word for restarting breathing and circulation, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is what CPR stands for. Do not resuscitate is a recorded decision, and how it is made and recorded is a serious matter in medical ethics. Figuratively it means reviving anything moribund: resuscitate a project. Note that the Latin means to rouse again from below.
1verbresuscitateTo bring somebody back to consciousness or life.
“The paramedics managed to resuscitate the swimmer on the beach.”
2verbreviveTo revive something moribund.
“The new owner is trying to resuscitate the failing football club.”
resuscitate is a reviving.
reSUSCitate → he SITs up again
From the Latin for raising up again. They work on him on the floor for four minutes and then he sits up, and everybody in the room breathes out.
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Latin resuscitare is re- plus suscitare, to raise up — sub plus citare, to rouse. Cite, excite and incite come from the same rousing.
Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
resuscitātus
English, today
resuscitate
Built from
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA