Sample sentences for RESUSCITATE

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Definition

to bring back to life or cause to regain consciousness — as when someone's heart is re-started after it stops or when a drowning victim is revived

She administered CPR, but was unable to resuscitate him.

She administered CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Her heart stopped, but they were able to resuscitate her with a portable defibrillator.
She signed a do not resuscitate order.
So that was not only the end of his life, but the end of any possible resuscitation of This I Believe.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe

He rushes within, fumbles with the handcuffs and unlocks them, raises the body to a sitting position while he tries to give resuscitation.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman

She dropped to her knees, and while I fanned away yellow jackets with peach branch leaves, she gave Jim Ed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Dori Sanders -- Clover

When he came outside again, Donna was still administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their dead son.
Stephen King -- Cujo

Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
Then Henchard shaved for the first time during many days, and put on clean linen, and combed his hair; and was as a man resuscitated thenceforward.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
There is no chance for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, as was attempted when Lincoln lay dying on the floor of his Ford's Theatre box.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

Ever hear of people being resuscitated after they have apparently drowned?
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
She peeks into the ambulance as she crosses the street, sees the resuscitative equipment but no people.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)

And that piece of filth you're trying to resuscitate—I suggest you get rid of him before he starts to rot.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
'Come down here and assist to resuscitate.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Kate lay amid the solemn monitoring and resuscitation equipment in the close quarters of the rescue ambulance.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls

Working quickly, Leale straddles Lincoln's chest and begins resuscitating the president, hoping to improve the flow of oxygen to the brain.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
And so he ran down and tried to resuscitate him.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
Except that surely the casualty team wouldn't keep arguing about the best way to resuscitate the patient?
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
I believe if I could have resuscitated him I would have done so for the sole purpose of murdering him!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

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