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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
re-animate

also reanimate, 1610s, in spiritual and physical sense, from re- "back, again" + animate (v.) "to endow with life." Related: Reanimated; reanimating.

Usage examples of "re-animate".

But no care could re-animate her, no medicine cause her dear eyes to open, and the blood to flow again from her pulseless heart.

She endeavoured by her cheerfulness to re-animate the whole party, and especially Madame La Motte, who frequently shed tears.

In the mean while Theodore endeavoured to re-animate Adeline, who was sinking with terror, and who now thought, if she could only escape from the Marquis, she could defy the future.

From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated him.