reanimate
verb (used with object)
to restore to life; resuscitate.
reanimates
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present tense formof reanimate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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However, NME wrote in a four-star review of the film that Ortega "reanimates" the undead classic and applauds her performance as a the "sharp, disenchanted daughter".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Subtext: In a courtroom flashback, the previously taciturn Sandra reanimates an argument from her fractious marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
Her revelatory, flawless reading of the challenging 1922 novel “Jacob’s Room” reanimates Woolf’s mercurial stream-of-consciousness prose, revealing her genius in ways perhaps lost on the casual reader, but conveyed through Stevenson’s painstakingly realized performance.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
In one he restores life to the dead child in the midst of a Florentine crowd; in the other his bier, passing the Baptistery, reanimates the dead tree.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
