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| 1. | [ verb ] heighten or intensify | |
| Synonyms: | inspire enliven exalt invigorate | |
| Examples: | "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
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| Related terms: | stimulate encourage ecstasy | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | |
| Examples: | "the word `dog' is animate" |
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| Related terms: | inanimate linguistics | |
| 3. | [ verb ] give life-like qualities to | |
| Synonyms: | animize animise | |
| Examples: | "animated cartoons" |
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| Related terms: | change animator | |
| 4. | [ verb ] give new life or energy to | |
| Synonyms: | revive recreate vivify revivify renovate quicken repair reanimate enliven | |
| Examples: | "A hot soup will revive me" "This will renovate my spirits" "This treatment repaired my health" |
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| Related terms: | stimulate come_to revival refreshment | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | |
| Synonyms: | sentient | |
| Examples: | "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence |
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| Related terms: | insentient sensate sentience | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | |
| Examples: | "we are animate beings" |
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| Related terms: | inanimate vital animateness | |
| 7. | [ verb ] make lively | |
| Synonyms: | enliven invigorate liven_up liven | |
| Examples: | "let's liven up this room a bit" |
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| Related terms: | deaden stimulate jazz_up spirit animator enlivener | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] relating to animal life as distinct from plant life | |
| Examples: | "animate life" |
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| Related terms: | animal | |
| 9. | [ verb ] give new life or energy to | |
| Synonyms: | revive recreate vivify quicken revivify reanimate | |
| Examples: | "A hot soup will revive me" |
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| Related terms: | stimulate | |
| Similar spelling: |
animated animatedly anointer animator animatism animation animating anoint animadvert |
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