Animate

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  • transitive verb. To give life to; fill with life.
  • transitive verb. To impart interest or zest to; enliven.
  • transitive verb. To fill with spirit, courage, or resolution.
  • transitive verb. To inspire to action; prompt.
  • transitive verb. To impart motion or activity to.
  • transitive verb. To make or depict using animation.
  • adjective. Possessing life; living. synonym: living.
  • adjective. Of or relating to animal life as distinct from plant life.
  • adjective. Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for living things.
  • adjective. Frequently moving; active or vigorous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, referring to living things as indicated by a difference of form in the designating word: said of gender in some languages. See the quotation.
  • Alive; possessing animal life: as, “creatures animate,”
  • Having the appearance of life; resembling that which is alive; lively.
  • Pertaining to living things: as, “animate diseases,” Kirby and Spence, Entomol.
  • To give natural life to; quicken; make alive: as, the soul animates the body.
  • To affect with an appearance of life; inspire or actuate as if with life; bring into action or movement.
  • To move or actuate the mind of; incite to mental action; prompt.
  • To give spirit or vigor to; infuse courage, joy, or other enlivening passion into; stimulate: as, to animate dispirited troops.
  • Synonyms To vivify. To revive, invigorate. To enliven, stimulate, inspirit, exhilarate, cheer, gladden, impel, urge on, prompt, incite.
  • To become enlivened or exhilarated; rouse one's self.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
  • transitive verb. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken.
  • transitive verb. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of.
  • transitive verb. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That which lives.
  • adjective. Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
  • adjective. Dynamic, energetic.
  • adjective. Having a referent that includes a human or animal.
  • adjective. Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
  • verb. To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
  • adjective. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • adjective. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
  • verb. give new life or energy to
  • verb. make lively
  • verb. give lifelike qualities to
  • verb. heighten or intensify
  • Word Usage
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