resurrect
verb🔊/ˌrezəˈrekt/
🔊/ˌrezəˈrekt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they resurrect | 🔊/ˌrezəˈrekt/ 🔊/ˌrezəˈrekt/ |
| he / she / it resurrects | 🔊/ˌrezəˈrekts/ 🔊/ˌrezəˈrekts/ |
| past simple resurrected | 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪd/ 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪd/ |
| past participle resurrected | 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪd/ 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪd/ |
| -ing form resurrecting | 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌrezəˈrektɪŋ/ |
- resurrect something
to bring back into use something such as a belief, a practice, etc. that had disappeared or been forgotten 重新应用；恢复使用；使复兴 The campaign for spelling reform has been resurrected. 拼写改革运动已经复活。 He has succeeded in resurrecting his career in television. 他成功地恢复了他在电视界的职业。
- resurrect somebody
to bring a dead person back to life 起死回生；使复活
Word Originlate 18th cent.: back-formation from resurrection.