Definition of "resurrect"

resurrect

/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present resurrects, present participle resurrecting, simple past and past participle resurrected
1. (transitive) To raise from the dead, to bring life back to.
2. (intransitive) To rise from the dead; return to life.
3. (transitive) To restore to a working state.
4. (transitive) To bring back to view or attention; reinstate.
  Quotations
  Why resurrect the idea almost 25 years later?
  2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 28