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.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To begin again or continue after interruption.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English resumen, from Old French resumer, from Latin resmere : re-, re- + smere, to take; see em- in Appendix I.
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