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• Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own.2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023. From the entry neighborliness
• And so it is good to see the big society born again, resurrected in Cameron's Christmas message.2014 January 4, Danny Kruger, “The big society is not about picking litter: it is meant to be a challenge”, in The Guardian. From the entry apposite
• We have to resurrect noynoying because Noynoy cannot be someone that his character is not.2014, Jerry Tundag, “Noynoying Revisited”, in The Freeman. From the entry noynoying
• Even worse is Plotz's assessment that Tudjman resurrected Ustasa symbols, such as the Croatian checkerboard flag.2011, Branko Belan, In the Name of Independence: The Unmaking of Tito's Yugoslavia. From the entry Croatian checkerboard
• We all have some secret little hope that the unworkables will be resurrected.2004, Don Aslett, The Office Clutter Cure, page 44. From the entry unworkable
• While the idea isn’t new, it has been resurrected.2026 May 20, Arwa Mahdawi, “And, lo! The latest fad diet is upon us – and it’s called ‘eating biblically’”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry biblical eating
• The Da Vinci Code resurrects a debate of biblical proportions.2003 July 20, Roxanne Roberts, “The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene”, in Washington Post, page D01. From the entry biblical
• The origin of words is a question that now falls within the chapter of “glottogony”, resurrected after decades of inactivity.1995, Werner Winter, editor, On Languages and Language […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry glottogony
• I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6. From the entry fantasist
• I summoned all the twenty hirens of the house (including the sweet-lipped, glossy chinned darling) into my resurrected presence.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 275. From the entry Hiren
• I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74. From the entry unrape
• When you die in battle, you are reborn as a "ghost" in a graveyard and must return to your dead corpse to resurrect.2006 April 6, "mikeh106@hotmail.com", “Re: Gaming.”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet). From the entry corpse camp
• The fly personae in these films influenced a wave of black contemporary youth who resurrected flyness and its continuum in hip-hop culture.2004, Cheryl Lynette Keyes, Rap music and street consciousness, page 194. From the entry flyness
• We show that the concordance cosmology can be resurrected using our phenomenological approach and our best-fitting model is in agreement with the PSCz observations.2001, Martin Hirsch, Georg G. Raffelt, José Wagner Furtado Valle, editors, Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings…. From the entry concordance cosmology
• However, after reading some of the posts here, I felt impassioned to resurrect Nat just long enough to get her opinion of things.1999 January 24, DYNOJET, “Last Knight and Infatuation 6”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2026. From the entry NatPacker
• Once resurrected from this 'dark place', as Georgia, a 26-year-old CrossFitter put it, the creation of a 'sweat angel' acts as a valued corporeal meritocratic marker.2020, James Brighton, Ian Wellard, Amy Clark, Gym Bodies: Exploring Fitness Cultures, page 127. From the entry sweat angel
• The situation prompted some Twitter users to resurrect the term “schadenford” — taking pleasure at the mayor's misfortunes — and a play on the German word schadenfreude.2011, Colin Perkel, “Police chief backs Mayor Ford on 911 call after ‘22 minutes’ fiasco”, Canadian Press (St. Albert Gazette), October 28. From the entry schadenford
• It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 458. From the entry qua
• The traditional ethic of the fair go was resurrected, the light on the hill reignited, and the government promised that those currently unemployed would not be left to stagnate.2002, Francis Gordon Clarke, The History of Australia, page 186. From the entry fair go
• Chairman, the Stark amendment, as I see it, is a last-ditch effort to resurrect the cat, the catastrophic care bill, and to unrepeal the repeal which we just passed.1989, Congressional Record. From the entry unrepeal
• And then, game would return; dead Indians would be resurrected, and living Indians would be protected from all harm by wearing painted ghost shirts and performing the special dance.1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ghost dance
• Schoolrooms are shutting down for the summer in South Jersey, and swimming suits are being dragged out of attic trunks, fishing poles resurrected from the cellars.1952 June 1, “School Offers Aid to Retarded Child […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Oaklyn

Meaning of resurrect

1. verb To raise from the dead; to bring life back to.
2. verb To rise from the dead; to return to life.
3. verb To restore to a working state.

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How do you use resurrect in a sentence?

Resurrect is used as a verb. For example: “Why resurrect the idea almost 25 years later?”

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“Why resurrect the idea almost 25 years later?”

What does resurrect mean?

Resurrect means to raise from the dead; to bring life back to.