How do you use the word "resuscitate" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "resuscitate": The EMTs are trying to resuscitate Tom. I tried to resuscitate Tom.

Resuscitate Meaning

/ɹɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.

verbTo regain consciousness.

Sentence Examples

The EMTs are trying to resuscitate Tom.

I tried to resuscitate Tom.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

revive

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor quickly tried to ____ the patient who had stopped breathing.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Paramedics worked for twenty minutes to ____ the patient before he was stabilized and taken to hospital.

Word Origin & History

From Latin resuscitātus, past participle of resuscitō (“to raise up again, revive”), from re- (“again”) + suscitō (“to raise up”), from sub- (“up, under”) + citō (“to summon, rouse”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation." — 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

"An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated." — 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 160:

"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, →ISSN:

"[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, →OCLC, canto 2, stanza 21, page 16:

Explore More C1 Vocabulary Words