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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reanimate
verb
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▪ It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies, renew the propaganda war, and once more undertake large-scale petitioning.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reanimate

Reanimate \Re*an"i*mate\ (r[-e]*[a^]n"[i^]*m[=a]t), v. t. To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.
--Glanvill.

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reanimate

Etymology 1

  1. Being animate again. Etymology 2

    v

  2. To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.

WordNet
reanimate

v. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

Usage examples of "reanimate".

A process to reanimate people who have been dead less than twenty-four hours.

Tell them Barchet was despondent over personal affairs, and left a memo imploring us not to reanimate him.

It pained me greatly to gaze upon her, but the seeker after truth must endure hardships and, if I was to reanimate Mr Penrose, I required the necessary herbs.

So we never got to discuss the time when, as children, we had tried to reanimate a dead man, not realizing when we performed the ritual how long it would take to work its terrible magic.

And I had tried to reanimate Mr Penrose, my all-time, then and now, favourite writer, but where had my youthful ideas and interests gone?

And you cut my head off and used my skull to mix up the herbs you needed to reanimate Mr Penrose.

Of the rest we can reanimate only one, although in principle two of the corpses are candidates for reanimation.

We could certainly reanimate her, but according to our doctors it is still not clear that we would be able to cure her.

It could be revivified, although as you see we no longer find it necessary to reanimate you in order to converse.

On the one hand, your direct order was to leave you unchanged in the cryotank until such time as there was new learning that might affect our ability to reanimate Ana, as she was in your time.

And so even though we can achieve physiological reanimation, the mind-ah-the mind is not always reanimated with the body.

Beller laboratories of his own will shortly before his death of natural causes, was reanimated, and suffered such mental disturbance afterward that he took his own life.

They gloated in the triumph of death, they thanked God they had not allowed their beloved ones to be reanimated, they extended curses for Harker and his whole family.

Until he was awake and his mental performance could be tested and evaluated, there was a chance that he had been reanimated only to live out a life of anguish and frustration, his potential tragically circumscribed by irreparable brain damage.

The boy had been dead for thirty-one minutes, not an absolute record even in those days, because the young girl in Utah had already been reanimated after being in the arms of Death for sixty-six minutes.