Definition of "resuscitate"

resuscitate

/ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present resuscitates, present participle resuscitating, simple past and past participle resuscitated
1. (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
  Quotations
  Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall.
  2023 January 30, Moya Lothian-McLean, “It’s Not Going Well for Britain’s New Prime Minister”, in The New York Times‎
2. (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
adjective
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Restored to life.
  Quotations
  [O]nce return'd / Unto her body new reſuſcitate / From ſleep, remembring well how erſt ſhe mourn'd, / Marvels how all ſo ſoon to peace and eaſe is turn'd.
  1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, canto 2, stanza 21, page 16