MEANING
1. To revive someone from a dangerous failure of breathing or circulation, or a similar collapse.
2. To bring a declining activity or institution back into operation.
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Words that belong together
- resuscitate a patient
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The team tried to resuscitate the patient.
They resuscitated him after the collapse.
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Word forms
- Base
- resuscitate
- Past tense
- resuscitated
- Past participle
- resuscitated
- Present participle
- resuscitating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- resuscitate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are resuscitating
- Present perfect
- have/has resuscitated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been resuscitating
- Past
- resuscitated
- Past continuous
- was/were resuscitating
- Past perfect
- had resuscitated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been resuscitating
- Future
- will resuscitate
- Future continuous
- will be resuscitating
- Future perfect
- will have resuscitated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been resuscitating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: resuscitate; resuscitates; resuscitated; resuscitated; resuscitating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: resuscitates.
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