of Refresh, Reviving; reanimating.

it was an expierement that went wrong. The NOVA gas posion is the reanimating component behind it all.

It is a response to the development of Bio-electronics - mainly the ability to make a frog's leg jump when it is shocked. Because of this phenomena the question arose of the possibility of reanimating dead tissue - which lead to the novel.

In "Pet Sematary," the story ends with Louis Creed reanimating his wife, Rachel, who had died in a car accident, by burying her in the Micmac burial ground. The resurrected Rachel kills Louis, and he joins her in the cursed burial ground.

The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression., That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.