resume

Speech parts

1. resume - Noun

2. resume - Verb

Meaning

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

To take back.

To enter upon, or take up again.

To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

survey sketch summarize restart summarise curriculum vitae re-start return continue epitome continuing abstract recover biography proceed

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Antonyms

end stop drop finish delay adventure

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Hypernyms

change continue preserve assume adopt repeat

Hyponyms

abstract docket precis recap recapitulate

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

resumed resuming

Anagrams

Meuser

Examples

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor. John Chrysostom

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life. George Steiner

The way to resumption is to resume. Salmon P. Chase

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? Richard Dawkins

I want to resume the life of a shy person. Garrison Keillor

If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume. Jacques Delors

Close letter words and terms

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