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Resurrect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To bring back to life; raise from the dead.

v. To bring back into practice, notice, or use.

verb-intransitive. To rise from the dead; return to life.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To raise from the dead, to bring life back to.

v. To re-use.

v. To bring to view or attention.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To take from the grave; to disinter.

v. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To restore to life; reanimate; bring to public view, as what has been lost or forgotten.

To take from the grave, as a dead body.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

v. return from the dead

v. cause to become alive again

Word Usage

"The Warrior Giant that the Tolmekians are trying to resurrect is under-utilized (it has one good scene), but it does serve an important mythological function."

Verb Form

resurrected resurrectibility resurrecting resurrectional resurrects

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

return resuscitate revive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disinter reanimate revive regenerate renew

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Brecht Hecht Select affect bedecked