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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REAN'IMATE, v.t. [re and animate.]
1. To revive; to resuscitate; to restore to life; as a person dead or apparently dead; as, to reanimate a drowned person.
2. To revive the spirits when dull or languid; to invigorate; to infuse new life or courage into; as, to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate drowsy senses or languid spirits.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 restore to life. 2 restore to activity or liveliness. Derivatives: reanimation n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reanimate Re*an"i*mate, 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Resuscitate, revive, bring to life, restore to life. 2. Reinvigorate, revive, enliven, cheer.