resurrect

/ri'sə:dʤənt/

Thân thiện

A gardener resurrects a wilted plant with careful watering.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To bring back to life from death: To cause someone or something that has died to live again.
   • To restore to use, activity, or prominence: To bring something back into existence, practice, or popularity after a period of inactivity or neglect.
   • To bring back into memory or attention: To cause an idea, memory, or feeling to be experienced again.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • Some believe that a prophet will one day resurrect the dead.
  • The director hopes to resurrect the classic film genre with his new movie.
  • The old photograph resurrected long-forgotten memories of her childhood.

Advanced Usage

• "to resurrect an old argument": to bring back a past disagreement or debate.

  • He didn't want to resurrect that old argument about money.

• "to resurrect a career": to successfully restart a professional life that had declined or ended.

  • The actor managed to resurrect his career with a surprising role in an independent film.

Variants and Related Words

• Resurrection (n): The act of resurrecting or the state of being resurrected.

  • The story is about the resurrection of a mythical creature.

• Resurrected (adj): Describing something that has been brought back.

  • The resurrected tradition brought joy to the village.

Synonyms

• Revive: To return to consciousness, life, or strength.
• Restore: To bring back to a former, original, or normal condition.
• Reanimate: To restore to life or give new energy to.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs. Its meaning is typically expressed directly.)

Related Idioms

• "Rise from the ashes": To make a successful comeback after a period of obscurity or failure, similar to being resurrected.
  • The company managed to rise from the ashes after the scandal and is now thriving again.

Học thuật

Verb

1. return from the dead
   • Christ is risen!
   • The dead are to uprise
2. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
   • He revived this style of opera
   • He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina
3. cause to become alive again
   • raise from the dead
   • Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected
   • Upraising ghosts

Từ đồng nghĩa

• rise
• uprise
• revive
• raise
• upraise