REANIMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reanimate mean? 

• REANIMATE (verb)
  The verb REANIMATE has 1 sense:

1. give new life or energy to

  Familiarity information: REANIMATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REANIMATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reanimate    ... he / she / it reanimates   
Past simple: reanimated   
Past participle: reanimated   
-ing form: reanimating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give new life or energy to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify

Context example:

This treatment repaired my health

Hypernyms (to "reanimate" is one way to...):

arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

Verb group:

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Once the rain arrives, they quickly reanimate and produce offspring.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When I thought of the airy dreams of youth that are incapable of realization, I thought of the better state preceding manhood that I had outgrown; and then the contented days with Agnes, in the dear old house, arose before me, like spectres of the dead, that might have some renewal in another world, but never more could be reanimated here.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)