Definitions for animate
Overview of verb animate
The verb animate has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt
(heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination")
2. animize, animise, animate
(give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons")
3. enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate
(make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit")
4. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health")
Overview of adj animate
The adj animate has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) animate
(belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate")
2. animate
(endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings")
3. sentient, animate
(endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence)
