regain consciousness
idiom
: to become conscious again : to wake up
He slowly regained consciousness after the surgery.
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Frank turned off the isoflurane but left the oxygen on, and the pigeon began to regain consciousness.
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Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
She was given Narcan, but did not regain consciousness.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2025
Patients whose brain waves showed both spindles and signatures of cognitive motor dissociation were more likely to regain consciousness, with 76 percent showing evidence of consciousness by the time they were discharged.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
Midway through the film, an I.E.D. explodes just outside the apartment building, and the sequence that follows, in which the survivors gradually regain consciousness, is a tour de force of sensory deprivation and temporal dislocation.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
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Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
She was given Narcan, but did not regain consciousness.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2025
Patients whose brain waves showed both spindles and signatures of cognitive motor dissociation were more likely to regain consciousness, with 76 percent showing evidence of consciousness by the time they were discharged.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
Midway through the film, an I.E.D. explodes just outside the apartment building, and the sequence that follows, in which the survivors gradually regain consciousness, is a tour de force of sensory deprivation and temporal dislocation.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Regain consciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regain%20consciousness. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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