Definition of Animate
Verb: animate a-nu-mut
- Heighten or intensify
"These paintings animate the imagination";
- inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
- Give lifelike qualities to
"animated cartoons";
- animize, animise [Brit]
- Make lively
- enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
- Give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will animate me";
- recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
- (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word 'dog' is animate"
- Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings"
- Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just animate puppets on God's stage";
- sentient
Anagrams containing the word animate