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
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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. Abhijit Shaw:

   We will have to resurrect an entire city.

2. Iwitness Truth:

   When the truth is concealed, mistakes are repeated in the future and the ghost of the catastrophic doom of the past resurrect; bringing in it wake the now inevitable doom. Only but the truth was concealed.

3. Robert Jackler:

   They're trying very hard to resurrect the glory era of smoking, where it was glamorous and sophisticated and stylish, it's about associating it with all the good things in life.

4. The NRA:

   With due respect, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's' proposals' would resurrect the same broken, Bloomberg-funded failures that were attempted under the Obama administration, like most political gambits, Lt. Gov. Patrick's' solution' precedes Dan Patrick possession of the facts, including this critical concession by the Obama administration : Criminalizing private firearm transfers would require a massive, governmental gun registration scheme.

5. Mike Nuss:

   We've had to scramble and resurrect our training.