verb 1. to start, or start something again after stopping ○ The meeting resumed after a short break. ○ Normal train services will resume after the track has been repaired. ○ After the fire, the staff resumed work as normal. 2. to go back to a place ○ Resume your places.
re•su´me´
n. [F. See Resume.] A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. “The exellent little resume thereof in Dr. Landsborough’s book.” C. Kingsley.
re•sume´
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. resumer. See Assume, Redeem.]
1. To take back. “The sun, like this, from which our sight we have,
Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.” Denham. “Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.” Sir W. Scott.
2. To enter upon, or take up again. “Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.” Dryden.
3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as to resume an argument or discourse.
1. To take back. “The sun, like this, from which our sight we have,
Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.” Denham. “Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.” Sir W. Scott.
2. To enter upon, or take up again. “Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.” Dryden.
3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as to resume an argument or discourse.
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