resuscitate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they resuscitate | |
| he / she / it resuscitates | |
| past simple resuscitated | |
| past participle resuscitated | |
| -ing form resuscitating |
- resuscitate somebody/something
to make somebody start breathing again or become conscious again after they have almost died 使苏醒；使恢复知觉 He had a heart attack and all attempts to resuscitate him failed. 他的心脏病发作，所有抢救他的努力都失败了。 - (figurative)
efforts to resuscitate the economy 重振经济的努力
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin resuscitat- ‘raised again’, from the verb resuscitare, from re- ‘back’ + suscitare ‘raise’.