If you resurrect something, you cause it to exist again after it had disappeared or ended. Attempts to resurrect the ceasefire have already failed once + resurrection res·ur·rec·tion This is a resurrection of an old story from the mid-70s. to bring back an old activity, belief, idea etc that has not existed for a long time (resurrection)
cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts" return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise