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Restitute vs Resuscitate - What's the difference?

restitute | resuscitate |

In transitive terms the difference between restitute and resuscitate

is that restitute is to refund while resuscitate is to restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.

As a noun restitute

is that which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

As an adjective resuscitate is

restored to life.

restitute

English

Verb

(restitut)
  • To restore (something) to its former condition.
  • To provide recompense for (something).
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
  • . . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .
  • * 1966 , , Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005, p. 28:
  • What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
  • * 1980 , , Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate , ISBN 9780801491856, p. 266:
  • [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
  • To refund.
  • * 2004 , , Private Sector , ISBN 9780446613934, p. 31:
  • We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.
  • ----

    resuscitate

    English

    Verb

    (resuscitat)
  • To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
  • to resuscitate''' a drowned person; to '''resuscitate withered plants
  • To regain consciousness.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Restored to life.
  • (Bishop Gardiner)