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wiederbeleben — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • raise verb To move or lift something to a higher position.
  • resurrect verb To bring someone back to life after death.
  • resuscitate verb To bring someone back to consciousness or revive them from apparent death.
  • revive verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.

Senses

wiederbeleben is used for these senses in English:

  • raise (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
  • resurrect (intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.
  • resuscitate (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
  • revive To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
  • revive To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

raise — full definition

  1. verb To move or lift something to a higher position.
  2. verb To increase the amount, level, or intensity of something.
  3. verb To bring up and care for a child, or to breed and tend animals or crops, until they are grown.
  4. verb To bring up a subject, question, or objection for discussion.
  5. noun An increase in salary or pay.

resurrect — full definition

  1. verb To bring someone back to life after death.
  2. verb To bring back something that had been abandoned or forgotten.

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