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Resurrect   /rˌɛzərˈɛkt/   Listen
Resurrect

verb
1.
Cause to become alive again.  Synonyms: raise, upraise.  "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected" , "Upraising ghosts"
2.
Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state.  Synonym: revive.  "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
3.
Return from the dead.  Synonyms: rise, uprise.  "The dead are to uprise"



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"Resurrect" Quotes from Famous Books



... one had called her ravishingly beautiful—after all that conscientious dishonesty what does she tell me but that some one had said I was so 'clean-looking.' One rather takes 'clean-looking' for granted! Even so with our friends being ladies. Quaint old word for you to resurrect, Wayne." ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

... of dust To resurrect some unknown bust, A torso, or a goddess whole; Maybe like Venus, minus arms— Haply to find those missing charms; But not the ...
— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard

... ears, and poked twigs into him, and all the while we laughed with streaming eyes. His futile anger was most absurd. He was a comical sight, striving to fan into flame the cold ashes of his youth, to resurrect his strength dead and gone through the oozing of the years—making woeful faces in place of the ferocious ones he intended, grinding his worn teeth together, beating his ...
— Before Adam • Jack London



Words linked to "Resurrect" :   rejuvenate, revive, republish, restore, regenerate, return, resuscitate



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