rekindled

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The colonel had the fire rekindled, and he ordered breakfast to be served them in their room.

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  1. transitive verb To relight (a fire).
  2. transitive verb To revive or renew: rekindled an old interest in the sciences.

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  • He was a young man again, heart and mind battling each other, love and betrayal rekindled, and somehow he didn't care that she wasn't really Teresa, that she was an organic dream creation of the man he was betraying once again. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • His trademark smile slowly rekindled, as he recalled the deepest secret of the young man's life: how, as a child, he'd entered the nursery in this house, turned Elmira's son over in his crib, and pressed the baby's face into the mattress until he suffocated—all out of fear that the white child would take his own place in Lerner's favor. —  FSF,March2008
  • So maybe one needs to forfeit the name "emergent / emergent", so that imagination can be rekindled, and the conversation continued. article on the emerging church, in which he opens up with these words; —  the Weary Pilgrim
  • Their passion rekindled, they reaffirm their goal to play at Budokan. —  Anime Nano!
  • That leaves as the primary risks facing the company a sharp slowing of customer call volume or a rekindled interest in in-house call centers. —  SmartMoney.com
 

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