reanimate

comparative more reanimate · superlative most reanimate · alternative re-animate

1. Being animate again.

present singular third person reanimates · participle present reanimating · participle past reanimated · past reanimated · alternative re-animate

1. To animate again.
   1. ambitransitiveTo restore (someone or something) to animation or life; to come back to animation or life.

      1 more example

      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, transforming the bodies into mindless killing machines.

      2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Husks Codex entry

      Synonyms: revive, 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.