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Refrigerate vs Reanimate - What's the difference?

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Refrigerate is a related term of reanimate.


As verbs the difference between refrigerate and reanimate

is that refrigerate is to cool down, make cool while reanimate is 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.

As an adjective reanimate is

being animate again.

refrigerate

English

Verb

(refrigerat)
  • To cool down, make cool.
  • * , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:
    • the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
  • Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
    • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

    Related terms

    * refrigerant * refrigeration * refrigerator

    See also

    * (refrigeration) ----

    reanimate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (re-) + (animate) (adjective)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being animate again.

    • Etymology 2

    From (re-) + (animate) (verb)

    Verb

    (reanimat)
  • 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.