English > resuscitate: 2 senses > verb 1, bodyMeaning | Cause to regain consciousness. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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Synonym | revive |
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Cause to | come to, revive, resuscitate | Return to consciousness |
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Narrower | boot, reboot, bring up | Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes |
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resurrect, raise, upraise | Cause to become alive again |
Broader | bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around | Return to consciousness |
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Similar to | come to, revive, resuscitate | Return to consciousness |
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Spanish | reanimar, reavivar |
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Catalan | avivar, reanimar, reavivar |
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Nouns | resuscitation | the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness |
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resuscitator | a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration |