Synonyms for resurrect
ˌrɛz əˈrɛktres·ur·rect

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1. resurrect, raise, upraiseverb

   cause to become alive again

   "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, farm, rise, put forward, leaven, upgrade, provoke, elevate, uprise, recruit, upraise, enkindle, put up, heighten, stir, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, fire, arouse, grow, bring up, invoke, conjure up, nurture, levy, promote, prove, erect, raise, call down, get up, produce, call forth, set up, kick upstairs, evoke, rear, parent, revive, enhance

2. revive, resurrectverb

   restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state

   "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina"

   Synonyms:
   repair, rise, uprise, animate, recreate, resuscitate, raise, vivify, upraise, renovate, revive, quicken, come to, reanimate, revivify

3. resurrect, rise, upriseverb

   return from the dead

   "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"

   Synonyms:
   rise, prove, bristle, grow, get up, spring up, revive, lift, upraise, develop, surface, arise, turn out, go up, come up, rear, mount, heighten, move up, originate, climb up, ascend, wax, stand up, uprise, rise up, jump, rebel, climb, raise

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1. • Regenerate
   • Return

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1. resurrectverb

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) disentomb, disinter, unbury, exhume

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1. List of paraphrases for "resurrect":

   resuscitate, revive, revitalise

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How to use resurrect in a sentence?

1. Mike Nuss:

   We've had to scramble and resurrect our training.

2. Keith Richards:

   At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this s–t, but I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track.

3. Antoine Sambin:

   We decided to resurrect one tram car from the 1920s, it has a very unique design.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   I think people understand there is something profoundly wrong today with establishment politics, that we need some bold ideas to resurrect the middle class in this country, to address poverty, to address income and wealth inequality.

5. Bob Wilkin:

   Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain.