reanimate

Other forms of reanimate

past tense

reanimated·

present participle

reanimating·

third person

reanimates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reanimate

What does reanimate mean?

reanimate means "give new life or energy to".

How many syllables are in reanimate?

reanimate has 4 syllables and divides as re-a-ni-mate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for reanimate?

Close synonyms include animate, recreate, revive, renovate, repair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reanimate a common word?

reanimate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.