Definition of: regenerate

(ri·jen′ə·rāt) v. ·at·ed, ·at·ing v.t.
1. To cause complete moral and spiritual reformation or regeneration in.
2. To produce or form anew; re–create; reproduce.
3. To make use of (heat or other energy that might otherwise be wasted) by means of various devices.
4. Biol. To grow or form by regeneration.
5. Electronics To raise the amplification of (a vacuum tube) by transferring to the input circuit some of the power of the output circuit.
—v.i.
6. To form anew; be reproduced.
7. To become spiritually regenerate.
8. To effect regeneration.
—adjective (ri·jen′ər·it)
1. Having new life; restored.
2. Spiritually renewed; regenerated. [<L regeneratus, pp. of regenerare generate again <re- again + generare. See GENERATE.]