resuscitatedadj.
/rᵻˈsʌsᵻteɪtᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈsəsəˌteɪdᵻd/, /riˈsəsəˌteɪdᵻd/ That has been resuscitated; revived, restored.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] > recovered
yheledc900
wholeeOE
safec1300
halec1330
healeda1400
recovered1477
bettered?1533
resuscitated1576
wella1616
stout?1697
a hundred per cent1960
1576 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 789/2 O Sonne of God, crucified for vs, and resuscitated Emanuell.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada iii. 214 Upon the becomming dead againe of her a litle sithence resuscitated lover, shee began to grieve with a new kinde of sorrow.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Resuscitation Many..have shewn resuscitated plants in vials.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 64 A thousand insect forms, These hatched, and those resuscitated worms.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 218 Communing with either a resuscitated Roman, or a Roman Ghost!
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 334 By a possibly resuscitated Tyre or by the new-born Alexandria.
1933 J. Cary Amer. Visitor vii. 72 Her publisher..believed in the Golden Age, the noble savage, and all the other resuscitated fancies of Rousseau.
1997 Economist 12 Apr. 30/3 In a bid to lower the bill, the government is now privatising resuscitated banks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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