as in to revive
to bring back to life, practice, or activity
the new multiplex has begun to reanimate the shabby neighborhood
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Recent Examples of reanimate
The creature was then dug up and reanimated through the eyes of Terence Fisher in 1957, Mel Brooks in 1974 and Kenneth Branagh in 1994, to name a few.
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
There’s a huge difference between memorializing a piece of pop culture and reanimating it.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
Toy Story is literally a child’s fantasy come to life, imagining a world where toys have lives of their own and reanimate whenever the kids leave the room.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Fanatics have been known to reanimate causes of all stripes.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026
There’s a huge difference between memorializing a piece of pop culture and reanimating it.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
Toy Story is literally a child’s fantasy come to life, imagining a world where toys have lives of their own and reanimate whenever the kids leave the room.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Fanatics have been known to reanimate causes of all stripes.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reanimate
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The Philippines, which recently declared a national energy emergency, is also considering reviving a nuclear plant built in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis but was never turned on.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Frank Zappa’s estate has revived their archival Vaulternative Records for the first time in nearly a decade to showcase a Mothers of Invention session from 1966.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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Another witness is Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1864), resurrected from his resting place among the Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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This project was briefly resurrected in the 1940s, but again nothing materialized.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2026
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There is something to be said for admitting that the prospects of disagreement are permanent and that wisdom consists not in tearing up the peace treaty but in renewing it.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In April, Argentina renewed attention on him after its President Javier Milei’s government designated the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization and singled out Vahidi by name.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reanimate. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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