animate
adjective
- 1
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
- 2
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
we are animate beings
- 3
belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
the word `dog' is animate
verb
- 1
give new life or energy to
A hot soup will revive me
This will renovate my spirits
- 2
make lively
let's liven up this room a bit
- 3
give lifelike qualities to
animated cartoons
- 4
heighten or intensify
These paintings exalt the imagination
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