All 4 Uses of

resume
in
BoneMan's Daughters

He'd used a stick to scrape the remnants of the bug from his skin before resuming the application of Noxzema between his legs and behind his knees, all the way to his ankles.†
Chpt 22 *

resuming = beginning again

He wiped them on one of the towels, then wiped his face and his neck so that he wouldn't drip over the man when he resumed the position the drawings instructed him to take if he wanted to fracture the scaphoid cleanly.†
Chpt 26

resumed = began again

Then the authorities had blamed another man for his mission and he'd taken a sabbatical, always knowing that he would resume his quest at the right time.†
Chpt 14

He was only interested in seeing one thing and his heart felt like it had lodged stubbornly in his throat, refusing to resume its beat until he saw her.†
Chpt 35

Definitions:

(1) (resume as in: resume the meeting)
begin or take again

This sense of resume generally means to begin again or continue after a pause. In usage like, "resumed her seat", it scan also mean to take again.
(2) (résumé as in: submitted her résumé)
a brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something -- typically submitted with an employment application

In practice, résumé is often written without the accented e's.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.