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