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reanimates

reanimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about reanimates

What is reanimates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reanimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reanimate.

Words near reanimates in the dictionary

  1. reanimalized
  2. reanimalizes
  3. reanimalizing
  4. reanimate
  5. reanimated
  6. reanimates
  7. reanimating
  8. reanimation
  9. reanimations
  10. reanimatology
  11. reanimator

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