RESURRECTING Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

resurrecting

verb

present participle of resurrect

as in reviving

to bring back to life, practice, or activity attempts are being made to resurrect the stalled arms negotiations

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Recent Examples of resurrecting After resurrecting iconic consoles like the 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision, Atari is relaunching one of the brand’s personal computers that originally debuted 43 years ago. — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026 Madonna has spent her career borrowing, referencing, resurrecting and reinventing, but never at the expense of distinctly looking and feeling like herself. — Sadie Kargman, Allure, 28 Sep. 2026 Smith was flat-out bad last season after playing good ball and resurrecting his career in Seattle. — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Defense spending is resurrecting an engineering and manufacturing base many believed had gone forever, replaced by finance, law, and people who make coffee. — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 The clarion call from Ted Cruz/Thom Tillis, resurrecting the Red Scare before the midterms. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026 Josephai spent years resurrecting Kadavumbagam Synagogue, the last functioning Malabari house of worship. — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026 At his first principal assignment, Hammocks Middle, Villalobos was commended for engaging parents, essentially resurrecting the school’s PTSA. — Austin Horn july 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026 Cook built the arch two decades ago, when resurrecting classical architecture in America was an eccentric idea. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

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Westlock Village emerged from development purgatory to apply for building permits in late September, reviving a 4-year-old plan to bring 256 homes to the corner of State Street and Ulmer Lane in West Boise.

— Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
Normalizing an extreme idea But the idea of reviving public executions has, in fact, been openly discussed in more mainstream right-wing circles, beyond the CREC.

— Odette Yousef, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of reviving

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AutoGov takes care of regular tasks like renewing licenses, paying bills, and booking routine health appointments.

— Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
Cable and telco giant Rogers Communications recently chose against renewing the broadcast of Saturday night National Hockey League games on the CBC, a Hockey Night in Canada tradition for the public broadcaster begun in 1952.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

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