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Meaning of animate
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
animate
adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living
beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: {inanimate}]
2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life;
"we are animate beings" [ant: {inanimate}, {non-living},
{nonliving}]
3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"-
T.E.Lawrence [syn: {sentient}, {animate}] [ant: {insensate},
{insentient}]
v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the
imagination" [syn: {inspire}, {animate}, {invigorate},
{enliven}, {exalt}]
2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn:
{animize}, {animise}, {animate}]
3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn:
{enliven}, {liven}, {liven up}, {invigorate}, {animate}]
[ant: {blunt}, {deaden}]
4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive},
{renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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