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resuscitate
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  • If your lungs grabbed up all the oxygen, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wouldn't work.†  (source)
  • I put him down on his back, tilted his head back, and began mouth-to mouth resuscitation.†  (source)
  • We tried the usual resuscitations, of course, but it was more for form than from hope.†  (source)
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  • You've been through resuscitation and renewal several times but you probably don't remember because of the fugue hangover.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
  • And so he ran down and tried to resuscitate him.†  (source)
  • It had been discarded after long years of service, only to be resuscitated by a lanky, hollow-eyed ex-R. A. F. pilot who had delusions about starting his own airline in the Canadian North.†  (source)
  • Bobbie looked at the body on the ground and realized that it didn't matter, there was no possibility of resuscitating him.†  (source)
  • She peeks into the ambulance as she crosses the street, sees the resuscitative equipment but no people.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
  • Awakened with this news, Hunt immediately tore open the bag, commenced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and summoned Dr. Larry Silver, one of the volunteers working at the HRA clinic.†  (source)
  • If I weren't I would've cut him down and tried to resuscitate him.†  (source)
  • Once they resuscitated her at the hospital, the police found some outstanding bad-check warrants, so she'd had to choose: rehab or jail.†  (source)
  • Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person, that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner, that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.†  (source)
  • I tried all the resuscitative techniques at my disposal, useless though I knew them now to be: arm-flapping, chest-massage, even mouth-to-mouth breathing, distasteful as that was, but with the expected result.†  (source)
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