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  Reanimate \Re*an"i*mate\ (r[-e]*[a^]n"[i^]*m[=a]t), v. t.
     To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse
     new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to
     reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate
     disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.
     --Glanvill.
     [1913 Webster]

  reanimate
      v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
           "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
           my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate,
           revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify,
           revivify]