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say it: rez-ur-EKT
resurrect is a verb meaning "cause to become alive again". It carries 3 recorded senses.
cause to become alive again
“raise from the dead”
“Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected”
“Upraising ghosts”
restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
“He revived this style of opera”
“He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for resurrect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.