Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.