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animate

/ animate /
verb/adjective

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"
Type of:
stimulate arouse brace
Derived:
revival resurgence revitalization revitalisation revivification
Verb group:
come to revive resuscitate
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
adjective Sense 2
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings"
Opposites:
inanimate nonliving dead
adjective Sense 3
belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word `dog'' is animate"
Opposites:
inanimate
Domain:
linguistics
verb Sense 4
heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
Type of:
stimulate shake shake up
Kinds of:
encourage
Derived:
ecstasy rapture transport exaltation raptus
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
adjective Sense 5
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God''s stage"- T.E.Lawrence"
Similar:
sensate
Opposites:
insentient insensate
verb Sense 6
give life-like qualities to
"animated cartoons"
Type of:
change alter modify
Derived:
animator
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 7
make lively
"let''s liven up this room a bit"
Opposites:
deaden blunt
Type of:
stimulate arouse brace
Kinds of:
jazz up juice up pep up ginger up spirit
Derived:
energizer energiser vitalizer vitaliser animator
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Semantic Complexity
64%
Sense Count
7
Total Synonyms
1
Total Relationships
46
Times Searched
1
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Related Words

stimulate arouse brace inanimate nonliving dead shake shake up encourage sensate insentient insensate