Reanimate, 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.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for reanimate; he lists it under recover.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.