Definition of animate

adjective (a)

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings (adj.all)

  Antonym: inanimate
  

  Example:
  The word `dog' is animate.
  

  source: wordnet30
• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life (adj.all)

  Antonym: inanimate, non-living, nonliving
  

  Example:
  We are animate beings.
  

  source: wordnet30
• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness (adj.all)

  Synonym: sentient
  Antonym: insensate, insentient
  

  source: wordnet30
• Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• heighten or intensify (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate
  

  source: wordnet30
• give lifelike qualities to (verb.change)

  Synonym: animise, animize
  

  Example:
  Animated cartoons.
  

  source: wordnet30
• make lively (verb.change)

  Synonym: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up
  Antonym: blunt, deaden
  

  source: wordnet30
• give new life or energy to (verb.body)

  Synonym: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify
  

  source: wordnet30
• To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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