Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reanimate \Re*an"i*mate\, 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.

Source : WordNet®

reanimate
     v : 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}, {revive}, {renovate},
          {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}]