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Definition of animate:
heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" 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 sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence |