resume

1. (transitive, now rare) To take back possession of (something)Examples: "Ladies and gentlemen, please resume your seats."; "As to the advice you give, to resume my estate, I am determined not to litigate with my father, let what will be the consequence to myself."; "For after that initiation it was impossible to attach any profound importance to the notion of dying. All individual deaths had been resumed by the death of God!"Synonyms: regainarchaictransitive

2. (transitive, now rare) To summarise.Examples: "He […] used to say that each separate death had taught him something new about death, and that he was going to resume this knowledge in a philosophic essay about dying."archaictransitive

3. (transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.Examples: "We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine."; "No man wiſhed more for the high establiſhment of the Royal Family than he did ; but he thought the Prince would do himſelf more honour by giving up the trappings of royalty at this moment, than by reſuming them."Antonyms: suspendtransitive

4. (intransitive) To start again after an interruption or pause.Examples: "Normal service has resumed."; "1991, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 43 CFR 5451.4, Office of the Federal Register, page 68. Before operations resume, a reduced bond shall be increased to the amount of a full"intransitive