reanimate
verb (used with object)
to restore to life; resuscitate.
had reanimated
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past perfectof reanimate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The two days' rest had reanimated the Vendeans, and Muller's infantry were driven back three miles; but large reinforcements came up, and the peasants were forced to fall back again.
From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Stanley L. Wood
According to the popular solution of this fearful mystery, a demon or familiar had reanimated her form while she lay senseless at the sudden and unlooked-for dissolution of the witches' assembly.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
The momentary fire which had reanimated him was soon quenched by accumulating infirmities.
From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving
Their dispersion weakened the French cause at a time when that cause seemed in the ascendant, and when Braddock's unavenged defeat had reanimated the French with the hope of driving the English from America.
From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann
This, however, she did not do till she had reanimated the company with consolatory and flattering expressions, and cast such a kind look upon her lover as darted fire into his soul.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
