reanimate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

reanimate
    v 1: 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}, {reanimate},
         {revive}, {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify},
         {revivify}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Reanimate \Re*an"i*mate\ (r[-e]*[a^]n"[i^]*m[=a]t), 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.
   [1913 Webster]