reanimate
verb
re·an·i·mate
(ˌ)rē-ˈa-nə-ˌmāt 
reanimated; reanimating; reanimates
: to animate or become animated again: such as
a
: to bring (someone or something) back to life or to come back to life
As the defrosting jellyfish seemed to reanimate under the faucet's running water, the restaurant's chef asked if he should salt the boiling water.—
Jason Horowitz
Jason Horowitz… Nathan would sit in the kitchen … watching Eleanor smoke cigarettes and squeeze lemons into her diet Coke, of which she drank sixty ounces a day—enough, as Major Ray often declared, to reanimate a dead body.—Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
b
: to regain vitality or to restore vigor and zest to (someone or something)
When she reanimates, the words just spill from her, small speedy bubbles sliding under and around each other …—Andrew Corsello
Andrew Corsello… serves to reanimate the old debates about the relationship between form and content …—Jed Perl
Jed Perl
reanimation
noun
plural reanimations
… discusses the post-Soviet decline, fall, and reanimation of the notorious Soviet secret police agency.
—Roland Green
Roland Green
This isn't just a captivating retelling; it's a creative reanimation of these indelible characters who are still breathing down our necks across the millennia.
—Ron Charles
Ron Charles
Synonyms
Examples of reanimate in a Sentence
the new multiplex has begun to reanimate the shabby neighborhood
Recent Examples on the Web
After engaging in a heated argument, Chucky fatally electrocutes Tiffany and reanimates her soul into a female doll.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
But there are plenty of signs that a new kind of energy has reanimated the disparate constituencies that make up the Democratic base and were at the heart of the first incarnation of the anti-Trump resistance movement.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
After accidentally poisoning Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, the sisters reanimate his corpse and have to fight his evil spirit while also contending with a curse that any man who loves an Owens woman will die.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
She has been reanimated after having thrown herself off the edge of a bridge.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
But there are plenty of signs that a new kind of energy has reanimated the disparate constituencies that make up the Democratic base and were at the heart of the first incarnation of the anti-Trump resistance movement.
—Christian Paz, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
After accidentally poisoning Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, the sisters reanimate his corpse and have to fight his evil spirit while also contending with a curse that any man who loves an Owens woman will die.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
She has been reanimated after having thrown herself off the edge of a bridge.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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reanimate
transitive verb
re·an·i·mate
(ˈ)rē-ˈan-ə-ˌmāt
reanimated; reanimating
: to restore to life : revive
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