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Definition of resume : 1. A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
2. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
3. To enter upon, or take up again.
4. To take back.

Synonyms:

suck, keep up, lift out, imbibe, recover, carry on, report, tally, crouch, recapitulate, scoop up, appraise, tot, seize on, re-start, retrieve, restore, crane, restart, retake, set in, recuperate, summarise, fall/fit into place, go on with, balance, latch on, view, sop up, scoop out, appraisal, crook, take over, assume, add together, add up, arrive, summarize, arise, reoccupy, application form, give, repossess, heal, hook on, originate, strike, be cured _or_ healed, cower, keep on, re-claim, tote up, be restored, application, take-up, return, bestride, sum up, borrow, fasten on, CV, draw, round-up, suck up, regain, summate, affirmative action, suck in, reassume, bid, bring back, begin, take in, vignette, biodata, repeat, take back, recruit, come into being, double over, scoop, take, commence, absorb, account, develop, bow, curriculum vitae, proceed, retry, start, sum, come back to, continue, pick up, apply, survey, burrow, adopt, applicant, replay, reproduce, add, bidder, total, reanimate, tot up, sorb, cartoon, sight, soak up, rerun, study, go on, cure, bend

recommence, reopen, return to, renew, begin again

overview, precis, abridgment, compendium, excerpt, abstract, outline, epitome, condensation, sketch, digest, summary, synopsis, prospectus

Usage examples:

• She was very frail at best, and has many times said that she expected to leave the body in one of her trances and never again resume her worn- out garment." - "Victor Ollnee's Discipline", Hamlin Garland.
• I had led for one month a very pleasant life with Eugene, when Lefebvre, the valet de chambre whom he had left sick at Cairo, returned in restored health, and asked to resume his place. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.
• The moderate members of the committee of public safety thought that the convention would resume all its power: it was utterly subdued. - "History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814", F. A. M. Miguet.