resuscitate
/ri'sʌsiteit/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To revive from unconsciousness or apparent death: To restore to life or consciousness, especially after a period of unconsciousness, cardiac arrest, or respiratory failure.
- To restore to activity, vigor, or notice: To bring back into use, popularity, or active existence.
Usage
- The primary use of "resuscitate" is in medical or emergency contexts to describe the act of reviving a person.
- It can also be used metaphorically to describe reviving ideas, practices, or organizations.
Examples
- Medical Context:
- Paramedics worked frantically to resuscitate the heart attack victim.
- The new protocol helped the team successfully resuscitate the patient.
- Metaphorical Context:
- The grant money helped resuscitate the failing community theater program.
- They hope the new marketing campaign will resuscitate interest in the classic novel.
Advanced Usage
- "to resuscitate hopes/plans": to restore hope or revive plans that were failing or abandoned.
- The promising data resuscitated hopes for a cure.
- "to resuscitate a conversation": to restart a conversation that had stalled or ended.
- He asked a question to resuscitate the dying conversation.
Variants and Related Words
- Resuscitation (n): The action or process of resuscitating someone or something.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital first aid skill.
- Resuscitator (n): A device or person that resuscitates, especially a device used to maintain breathing.
- The ambulance was equipped with a portable resuscitator.
Synonyms
- Revive: To restore to life or consciousness.
- Reanimate: To restore to life; to give fresh vigor to.
- Revitalize: To imbue with new life and vitality.
Antonyms
- Extinguish: To cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine; to end the existence of.
- Suppress: To forcibly put an end to.
Related Phrases
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): An emergency procedure involving chest compressions and often artificial ventilation.
- Knowing CPR can help you resuscitate someone in cardiac arrest.
Verb
- return to consciousness
- The patient came to quickly
- She revived after the doctor gave her an injection
- cause to regain consciousness
- The doctors revived the comatose man