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Resuscitate


RESUS'CITATE, verb transitive [Latin resuscito; re and suscito, to raise.]

1. To revivify; to revive; particularly, to recover from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

2. To reproduce, as a mixed body from its ashes.