re-animation

A form of reanimation — The act of reanimating; a second or subsequent animation.

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Meanings

nounre-animation (countable and uncountable, plural re-animations)

plural re-animations

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of reanimation.

    It was a most delightful re-animation of exhausted spirits.

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 77–78
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    Lightness and cheerfulness of spirits, with re-animation of countenance, immediately succeeded.

    1816, William Balfour, “Case XXX”, in Observations, with Cases Illustrative of a New, Simple, and Expeditious Mode, of Curing Rheumatism and Sprains, Without in the Least Debilitating the System, Edinburgh: […] J. & C. Muirhead, for Adam Black, […], page 211

    Yet Democrats and the media seem firmly convinced that the re-animation of abortion as a state law issue will somehow translate into 2022 electoral victory.

    2022 July 1, Ben Shapiro, “Roe v. Wade is history, but the abortion debate reveals rot”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 143, number 208, Marshall, Tex., page 4A
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APA

re-animation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-animation

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“re-animation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-animation. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-animation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-animation.

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