resurrect
to reactivate, reanimate
TRANSLATION
resurrect = etwas zu neuem Leben erwecken, wiederauferstehen Resurrection (bibl.) = die Auferstehung --- GOOGLE INDEX resurrect: approximately 8,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Less than two months after he left the sports world in disgrace, Lance Armstrong was already trying to RESURRECT his image.
(USA Today)
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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be RESURRECTED with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
(American philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen)
(USA Today)
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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be RESURRECTED with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
(American philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen)
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resurrect
verb
- to bring back into practice, notice, or use
- to bring back to life; raise from the dead
resurrection
noun
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Resurrect is a back-formation of resurrection, which stems from the Latin resurrectio — a rising from the dead — which in turn is from the past participle stem of the Latin resurgere (to rise again). Resurrection was originally a church festival commemorating Christ's rising from the dead. The general sense of "revival" first appeared in the mid-17th century.
Apart from divine resurrection as described in holy scriptures, scientists are pursuing biological forms of resurrection through cloning. One of the great fantasies is bringing dinosaurs back to life alá Jurassic Park. To do that, dinosaur DNA is required and to date scientists have come up empty handed in their search for workable genetic material.
The woolly mammoth, which disappeared around 10,000 years ago, is another story however. Portions of Siberia's permafrost have thawed, leaving woolly mammoth remains. The next step would involve replacing the nuclei of elephant egg cells with those of a mammoth, producing embryos with mammoth DNA.
Then, those embryos will be planted into the wombs of elephants for delivery. The mammoth cells would come from internal organs, skin, bones and blood. Finding well-preserved tissue with an undamaged gene will be the most difficult task. But if they succeed, perhaps modern man will get a glimpse of the Ice Age.
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SYNONYMS
breathe new life into, reactivate, reanimate, rekindle, restore, resuscitate, revive
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Maybe we can enlarge our portfolio by resurrecting some discontinued products."
verb
- to bring back into practice, notice, or use
- to bring back to life; raise from the dead
resurrection
noun
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Resurrect is a back-formation of resurrection, which stems from the Latin resurrectio — a rising from the dead — which in turn is from the past participle stem of the Latin resurgere (to rise again). Resurrection was originally a church festival commemorating Christ's rising from the dead. The general sense of "revival" first appeared in the mid-17th century.
Apart from divine resurrection as described in holy scriptures, scientists are pursuing biological forms of resurrection through cloning. One of the great fantasies is bringing dinosaurs back to life alá Jurassic Park. To do that, dinosaur DNA is required and to date scientists have come up empty handed in their search for workable genetic material.
The woolly mammoth, which disappeared around 10,000 years ago, is another story however. Portions of Siberia's permafrost have thawed, leaving woolly mammoth remains. The next step would involve replacing the nuclei of elephant egg cells with those of a mammoth, producing embryos with mammoth DNA.
Then, those embryos will be planted into the wombs of elephants for delivery. The mammoth cells would come from internal organs, skin, bones and blood. Finding well-preserved tissue with an undamaged gene will be the most difficult task. But if they succeed, perhaps modern man will get a glimpse of the Ice Age.
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SYNONYMS
breathe new life into, reactivate, reanimate, rekindle, restore, resuscitate, revive
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Maybe we can enlarge our portfolio by resurrecting some discontinued products."
