| v. t. | 1. | To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; |
| 2. | To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; | |
| 3. | To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. | |
| a. | 1. | Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. |
| Verb | 1. | animate - heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| 2. | animate - give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons" | |
| 3. | animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" | |
| 4. | animate - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" | |
| Adj. | 1. | animate - belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" Antonyms: inanimate - belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" |
| 2. | animate - endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" | |
| 3. | animate - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence Synonyms: sentient |
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