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
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the new multiplex has begun to reanimate the shabby neighborhood
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Old villains will reanimate like zombies and new ones will form like mega Deadites come to wipe out your whole family — chosen or otherwise.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
As part of the 3 Arrows of the Abenomics plan to reanimate a moribund Japanese economy, Japan permitted its government pension fund, GPIF, to invest more of its capital in foreign assets.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
So many recent revisitations of old properties play like corporate attempts to reanimate the dead — literally, in the case of movies like Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Alien: Romulus.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Painstakingly reanimating a digital world A still from The Remarkable Life of IbelinCourtesy of Netflix/World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment
Still, Ree needed to reconstruct these events in the world of the video game.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
As part of the 3 Arrows of the Abenomics plan to reanimate a moribund Japanese economy, Japan permitted its government pension fund, GPIF, to invest more of its capital in foreign assets.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
So many recent revisitations of old properties play like corporate attempts to reanimate the dead — literally, in the case of movies like Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Alien: Romulus.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Painstakingly reanimating a digital world A still from The Remarkable Life of IbelinCourtesy of Netflix/World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment
Still, Ree needed to reconstruct these events in the world of the video game.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reanimate. Accessed 28 Nov. 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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