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re⋅sume

1  [ri-zoom] verb, -sumed, -sum⋅ing.
Use Resumed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
2. to take or occupy again: to resume one's seat.
3. to take or assume use or practice of again: to resume her maiden name.
4. to take back: to resume the title to a property.
–verb (used without object)
5. to go on or continue after interruption: The dancing is about to resume.
6. to begin again.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME resumen (< MF resumer) < L resūmere to take back, take again, equiv. to re- re- + sūmere to take (see consume )

Related forms:
re⋅sum⋅a⋅ble, adjective
re⋅sum⋅er, noun
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re·sume   (rĭ-zōōm')   
v.   re·sumed, re·sum·ing, re·sumes

v.   tr.

  1. To begin or take up again after interruption: resumed our dinner.

  2. To assume, take, or occupy again: The dog resumed its post by the door.

  3. To take on or take back again: resumed my original name.

v.   intr.
To begin again or continue after interruption.

[Middle English resumen, from Old French resumer, from Latin resūmere : re-, re- + sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.]
re·sum'a·ble adj., re·sum'er n.
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Word Origin & History

resume  (v.)
1404, from L. resumere "take again, assume again," from re- "again" + sumere "take up" (cf. assume). Resumption (1449) is from L. resumptionem, noun of action from resumere.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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