Resuming

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process of starting again after a temporary stop encompasses both a continuation of an ongoing task and the reinitiation of a previously interrupted action
2. It involves the act of taking up an activity again after a break while also signifying the return to a previous state of activity
3. Beginning an activity again that was temporarily halted

Etymology: "Resuming" is the present participle of "resume", so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb came into English from Anglo-Norman "resumer" and Middle French "resumer", both descending from Latin "resumere", which combined "re-" (back, again) with "sumere" (to take). Its earliest sense was literal: to take something back, or to take up again what had been set aside. The same Latin root shaped a second English word. French "résumé", the past participle of "résumer", meant "summarized" and took the sense of gathering the main points of something, which is why it came to name a brief summary. English later borrowed that French form directly, so "resume" (to start again) and "résumé" (a summary, and the job document) are close relatives that split apart in French and English.

Synonyms: continuing, restarting, returning

Antonyms: ceasing, stopping, discontinuing