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re-animate

re-animate is the alternative form of reanimate.

Meaning of reanimate

Verb

reanimate (third-person singular simple present reanimates, present participle reanimating, simple past and past participle reanimated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To restore (someone or something) to animation or life; to come back to animation or life.
    • After the geth secure a location, they round up and impale dead and living bodies on mechanical spikes. The spikes rapidly transform these victims into withered husks, extracting water and trace minerals and replacing them with cybernetics.
      The cybernetics re-animate the lifeless flesh and tissue...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Husks Codex entry
    Synonyms:
    revive
  2. To infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into.
  3. To revive: to restore (someone in cardiac arrest) back to cardiac function.
    • Near-synonym: rescue
    Synonyms:
    rescue
  4. to reinvigorate.
  5. to put new animation (pictures) into.

See all 6 meanings of reanimate

Forms of re-animate

third-person singular presentre-animates
present participlere-animating
past participlere-animated
pastre-animated

Questions about re-animate

What is re-animate the alternative form of?
Re-animate is the alternative form of reanimate.

Words near re-animate in the dictionary

  1. re-allot
  2. re-ally
  3. re-allying
  4. re-analyse
  5. re-analysis
  6. re-animate
  7. re-animated
  8. re-animates
  9. re-animating
  10. re-animation
  11. re-appear

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