Reanimate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]