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Meaning of 'animate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Animate [ a.]
- Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
2 . Animate [ v. t.]
- To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
- To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
- To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

Meaning of 'animate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . animate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- give new life or energy to
Example in sentence:
  • A hot soup will revive me;
  • This treatment repaired my health;
  • This will renovate my spirits
Meaning (2):
- give lifelike qualities to
Example in sentence:
  • animated cartoons
Meaning (3):
- make lively
Example in sentence:
  • let's liven up this room a bit
Meaning (4):
- heighten or intensify
Example in sentence:
  • These paintings exalt the imagination
5 . animate [ a]
Meaning (5):
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Example in sentence:
  • the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Meaning (6):
- belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
Example in sentence:
  • the word `dog' is animate
Meaning (7):
- endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
Example in sentence:
  • we are animate beings

Nearby Words:

ani anicut anidiomatical anient anientise anigh anight anights anil anile

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