From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrise/come back/return from the deadrise/come back/return from the deadto become alive again after dying Christ rose from the dead. → dead
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rise/come back/return from the dead• A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.• The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.• When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.• Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen. 