生き返る

いきかえる・かえらせる【生き返る・返らせる】

*revive

|自|〖S〗 生き返る， 意識を回復する《◆ come to (life)より堅い語》.

|他|〖S〗〖D〗 (物・事・人が)(人)を生き返らせる， 意識を回復させる《◆ bring to life より堅い語》；(物・事)をよみがえらせる， 蘇生させる

revive an almost drowned swimmer おぼれて半死半生の人を生き返らせる

**rise

|自|《正式》(死者などが)〔死などから〕生き返る， よみがえる(again)〔from〕

bring O (back) to life

(人)を生き返らせる；…を元気にさせる

come (back) to life

〖S〗 意識を取り戻す， 生き返る

come alive

生き返る， 生き生きとする

return to life

生き返る.

▲raise him from the dead 彼を生き返らせる.

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いきかえる【生き返る】

〔蘇生する〕 regain [recover] consciousness; come around [《英》 round]; come to; be resuscitated; 〔再生する〕 come back to life; revive; be revived; feel [look] human again; 〔復活する〕 be brought [restored] to life. [⇒いきかえらせる]

●人工呼吸で生き返る be resuscitated by artificial respiration.

●雨で草木が生き返った. The rain has brought the plants back [restored the plants] to life. | Thanks to the rain the plants have come back to life [are fresh and green again].

・厳しい暑さがやわらいで, 生き返ったような心地だ. The fierce heat has eased and I feel alive again [restored to life].

・病気の不安から解放されて生き返ったような心地だ. I have been released from the anxiety of illness and feel as though I had come back to life [returned from the dead].

・まるで彼の兄が生き返ったようだ. 〔彼が死んだ兄と似ていて〕 It's just as if his (elder) brother had come back [been restored] to life.