MEANING
1. To bring a body back to life or revive an apparently lifeless body.
2. To give renewed energy or activity to something.
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Words that belong together
- reanimate a body
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The fictional machine reanimated the body.
The spark seemed to reanimate the inert creature.
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Word forms
- Base
- reanimate
- Past tense
- reanimated
- Past participle
- reanimated
- Present participle
- reanimating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reanimate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reanimating
- Present perfect
- have/has reanimated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reanimating
- Past
- reanimated
- Past continuous
- was/were reanimating
- Past perfect
- had reanimated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reanimating
- Future
- will reanimate
- Future continuous
- will be reanimating
- Future perfect
- will have reanimated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reanimating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: reanimate; reanimates; reanimated; reanimated; reanimating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: reanimates.
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