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Resurrect   /rˌɛzərˈɛkt/   Listen
Resurrect

verb
1.
Cause to become alive again.  Synonyms: raise, upraise.  "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected" , "Upraising ghosts"
2.
Restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state.  Synonym: revive.  "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"
3.
Return from the dead.  Synonyms: rise, uprise.  "The dead are to uprise"



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"Resurrect" Quotes from Famous Books



... the table. With rapid and sure gestures he extracted and pocketed the clip, drew back the breech, ejecting into his palm the one shell in the barrel, and replaced the weapon, all before the Prussian gave over his insane efforts to resurrect the dead. ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... feet!" cried Auburn Risque, in his hard, practical way; "my system will resurrect the dead. You shall have clothes upon your backs, shoes upon your feet, specie in your pockets, blood in your veins. Let us sell, borrow and pawn; we can raise a thousand francs together. I will return in a ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

... me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes... Of the cauled beginnings... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief... Let me blow the dust from off you... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In ...
— Sun-Up and Other Poems • Lola Ridge

... there isn't a thing on earth can make me see that she's the right to take any sort of protection he hasn't the right to give. That sort of woman's a vampire. And vampires are things I'd like to see drowned so deep they can't ever resurrect. If I took your pelts I'd be a vampire for taking something you haven't the right to give. They're your trade, and I guess out of your trade you've got to pay your outfit of Eskimo. Do you see? To my way of thinking those furs are not yours to give, just because you find a fool ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... bringing to the light of day some of the relics of this buried people. Portions of the island lie but a few hundred fathoms beneath the sea; and if expeditions have been sent out from time to time in the past, to resurrect from the depths of the ocean sunken treasure-ships with a few thousand doubloons bidden in their cabins, why should not an attempt be made to reach the buried wonders of Atlantis? A single engraved tablet dredged up from Plato's island would be worth more ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... thousand ways, during this fierce conflict, has given us evidence of his favor, and led us out of the land of bondage into a purer and higher state of freedom, where slavery, as an institution among us, is no more. Why do they labor so long and so ardently to resurrect again into life this foul and loathsome thing? Why can not they forget their former love and attachments in this direction, and no longer cling with such undying grasp to this dead carcass, which, by its corruptions and rottenness, has well ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes



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