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reanimate

[ ree-an-uh-meyt ]

verb (used with object)

reanimated, reanimating.
  1. to restore to life; resuscitate.
  2. to give fresh vigor, spirit, or courage to.
  3. to stimulate to renewed activity.


reanimate

/ ːˈæɪɪ /

verb

  1. to refresh or enliven (something) again

    to reanimate their enervated lives

  2. to bring back to life
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ·i·tDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of reanimate1

First recorded in 1605–15; re- + animate
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Rushmore of celebrity stoners — they become reanimated and engaging.

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The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.

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The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight.

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Like, say, maintaining his X-rated shrubbery or reanimating dead flesh into a lumbering errand boy.

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Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI.

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