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Reanimate

Definition: Reanimate

Reanimate

Verb

1. Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reanimate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Reanimate

Synonyms: animate (v), quicken (v), recreate (v), revive (v), revivify (v), vivify (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reanimate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Life

Give birth to. (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate. (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.

Reproduction

Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.

Restoration

Resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reanimate

English words defined with "reanimate": Recreate, RequickenTo refresh the memory. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Reanimate

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reanimate

"Reanimate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reanimate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reanimate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reanimate

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reanimate

Language Translations for "reanimate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ringjall (raise, raise from the dead, reactivate, regenerate, resurrect, resuscitate), vë në jetë (realize). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), ‏لهب (blaze, flame, inflame, inspire, thrill), ‏حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), ‏رد القوة, ‏رد الوعي, ‏بعث (bundle, cast, despatch, dispatch, forward, hand, hand over, mission, recall, regenerate, regeneration, renaissance, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in, telegram). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съживявам (animate, awake, enliven, galvanize, pull round, raise, rally, regenerate, renovate, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, revivify, wake), въодушевявам (elate, flush, inspire, intoxicate, invigorate, spirit, warm), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), обновявам (recall, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, vitalize). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vzkřísit (bring round, resurrect, resuscitate), oživit (animate, brighten up, enliven, inspirit, jazz, liven, quicken, recapture, regenerate, rejuvenate, retrieve, revive, spirit, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

   

French

  

raviver (reinvigorate, rekindle, revive). (various references)

   

German

  

neu beleben (reinvigorate, revitalize, to reanimate, to reinvigorate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εμψυχώνω (animate, encourage), αναζωογονώ (enliven, give a new lease of life, refresh, resuscitate, revitalise, revitalize, revive, revivify). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"חזיר לחיים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felpezsdít (invigorate, to invigorate, to warm, to warm up), bátorságot önt valakibe, újra életre kelt (to restart). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rianimare (cheer up, enliven, quicken, rally, recover oneself, refresh, resuscitate, revive, take heart again, wake). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eanimateray

   

Portuguese

  

reanimar (freshen, galvanized, reassure, refresh, revivify, rub up, vitalize). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reanima, reînvia (resurrect, resuscitate, revive, rip up), reînsufleţi (requicken, revive, revivify), învia (raise, resurge, resurrect, resuscitate, revive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

реанимировать, оживлять (animate, brighten, enliven, exhilarate, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, resuscitate, revitalize, souped, souping, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

reanimirati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reanimar (bring around, bring round, bring to, pull round, raise spirits, revive, warm up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väcka till liv. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden canlandırmak (revitalize, revive), tekrar canlandırmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вдихнути нове життя, ожити (come alive again), оживити (tart up). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dadeni (rebirth, regenerate, renaissance, renascence), adfywhau (revive). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reanimate

Derivations

Words beginning with "reanimate": reanimated, reanimates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reanimate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Reasima, renavigate, ruhaniyat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reanimate"

Words rhyming with "reanimate" (pronounced 'Re*an"i*mate'): Acclimate, Antepenultimate, Apostemate, Archprimate, Bipalmate, Bookmate, Casemate, Chromate, Classmate, Collimate, Copesmate, Cremate, Decimate, Dephlegmate, Deplumate, Despumate, Desquamate, Disanimate, Elimate, Fissipalmate, Formate, Gemmate, hamate, HELPMATE, Holostomate, Housemate, Humate, Hydrobromate, Hyemate, Inconsummate, Incremate, Infumate, Inhumate, Interanimate, Lachrymate, Lifemate, messmate, Misestimate, mismate, Optimate, Osmate, Palamate, Perbromate, Playmate, Preantenultimate, Primate, Racemate, roommate, Sacchulmate, schoolmate, shipmate, Skainsmate, Steersmate, Stomate, Totipalmate, Transanimate, Ulmate, Unanimate, Unconsummate, Yokemate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Reanimate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-r-t"

-1 letter: animater, antimere, marinate.

-2 letters: amentia, amirate, amreeta, animate, arenite, emanate, emerita, emirate, enemata, etamine, manatee, martian, matinee, meatier, minaret, raiment, ramenta, retinae, taeniae, tamarin, trainee.

-3 letters: aerate, airman, airmen, amrita, anemia, antiar, emetin, entera, entire, ermine, etamin, imaret, inmate, mantra, marina, marine, marten, martin, meaner, meanie, metier, minter, neater, ramate, ratine, reemit, remain, remate, remint, rename, retain, reteam, retime, retina, retine, taenia, tamari, tamein, teniae, triene.

-4 letters: aerie, aimer, amain, ameer, ament, amine, amnia, anear, anima, anime, antae, antra, antre, areae, arena, arete, armet, atman, atria, eaten, eater, enate, enema, enter, entia, inarm, inert, inter, irate, manat, mania, manta, maria, mater, matin, meant, menta, merit, meter, metre, minae, miner, miter, mitre, naira, namer, niter, nitre, ramee, ramen, ramet, ramie, ranee, ratan, reata, reman, remet, remit, rente, retem, retia, retie, riant, riata, tamer, tenia, terai, terne, tiara, timer, tinea, train, treen, trine.

-5 letters: airn, airt, amen, amia, amie, amin, amir, anta, ante, anti, area, aria, atma, earn, emir, emit, erne, etna, item, maar, main, mair, mana, mane, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mite, name, near, neat, neem, nema, nite, raia, rain, rami, rani, rant, rate, ream, rein, rent, rete, rime, rite, tain, tame, tare, tarn, team, tear, teem, teen, term, tern, tier, time, tine, tire, tram, tree, trim.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: emarginate, reanimated, reanimates.

 

+3 letters: aeromagnetic, animadverted, appraisement, cabinetmaker, mainstreamed, materialness.

 

+4 letters: appraisements, argumentative, ascertainment, cabinetmakers, determinantal, disparagement, intermarriage, mediterranean, recontaminate, reexamination, vegetarianism.

 

+5 letters: aggrandizement, amateurishness, ascertainments, disarrangement, disparagements, intermarriages, materialnesses, neuroanatomies, parameterizing, recontaminated, recontaminates, reexaminations, sabermetrician, tatterdemalion, trihalomethane, vegetarianisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reanimate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 6E 69 6D 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 006E 0069 006D 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527167807579678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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