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Animate

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Verb

1. animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate

heighten or intensify

Example Sentences:
'These paintings exalt the imagination'

2. animate, animise, animize

give lifelike qualities to

Example Sentences:
'animated cartoons'

3. animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up

make lively

Example Sentences:
'let's liven up this room a bit'

4. animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify

give new life or energy to

Example Sentences:
'A hot soup will revive me'
'This will renovate my spirits'
'This treatment repaired my health'

Adjective

5. animate

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

Example Sentences:
'the word dog' is animate'

6. animate

endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

Example Sentences:
'we are animate beings'

7. animate, sentient

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

Example Sentences:
'the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Animate

see synonyms of animate
verb (ˈænɪˌmeɪt ) (transitive)
1. 
to give life to or cause to come alive
2. 
to make lively; enliven
3. 
to encourage or inspire
4. 
to impart motion to; move to action or work
5. 
to record on film or video tape so as to give movement to
an animated cartoon
adjective (ˈænɪmɪt )
6. 
being alive or having life
7. 
gay, spirited, or lively

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Animate

see synonyms of animate
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈaniˌmated or ˈaniˌmating
1. 
to give life to; bring to life
2. 
to make energetic or spirited
3. 
to stimulate to action or creative effort; inspire
4. 
to give motion to; put into action
the breeze animated the leaves
5. 
to make move so as to seem lifelike
to animate puppets
6. 
to produce as an animated cartoon
to animate a fairy tale
adjective
7. 
living; having life, esp. animal life
8. 
lively; vigorous; spirited

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Animate

see synonyms of animate
tr.v. an·i·mat·ed, an·i·mat·ing, an·i·mates
1. To give life to; fill with life: the belief that the soul animates the body.
2. To impart interest or zest to; enliven: "voices animated by food, drink, and company" (Anita Desai).
3. To fill with spirit, courage, or resolution: "a wave of exploratory voyages animated by a spirit of scientific inquiry" (Lincoln P. Paine).
4. To inspire to action; prompt: "The merest whisper of Bothwell's death was enough to animate Mary's supporters on the Continent" (John Guy).
5. To impart motion or activity to: The wind animated the surface of the lake.
6. To make or depict using animation: animate a children's bedtime story.
adj. (ănə-mĭt)
1. Possessing life; living. See Synonyms at living.
2. Of or relating to animal life as distinct from plant life.
3. Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for living things: The word dog is animate; the word car is inanimate.
4. Frequently moving; active or vigorous: a bird with an animate tail.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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