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resurrecting

resurrecting is the present participle and gerund of resurrect.

Meaning of resurrect

Verb

resurrect (third-person singular simple present resurrects, present participle resurrecting, simple past and past participle resurrected)

  1. (transitive) To raise from the dead; to bring life back to.
    Synonyms:
    revive
  2. (intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.
  3. (transitive) To restore to a working state.
  4. (transitive) To bring back to view or attention; to reinstate.
    • Why resurrect the idea almost 25 years later?2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Class 56s revived, rebuilt and rebooted as GBRf Class 69s”, in Rail, page 28

Questions about resurrecting

What is resurrecting the present participle and gerund of?
Resurrecting is the present participle and gerund of resurrect.

Words near resurrecting in the dictionary

  1. resurrectable
  2. resurrected
  3. resurrectee
  4. resurrectees
  5. resurrectible
  6. resurrecting
  7. resurrectingly
  8. resurrection
  9. resurrection fern
  10. resurrection gate
  11. resurrection lily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resurrecting (page history and authors); resurrect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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