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animate

('/&/n/@/m/@/t )

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings(adj.all)

Example:
The word `dog' is animate.

Antonym:
inanimate

source: wordnet30
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life(adj.all)

Example:
We are animate beings.

Antonym:
inanimate, non-living, nonliving

source: wordnet30
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness(adj.all)

Synonym:
sentient
Antonym:
insensate, insentient

source: wordnet30
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.(adjective)

source: webster1913

heighten or intensify(verb.emotion)

Synonym:
enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate

source: wordnet30
give lifelike qualities to(verb.change)

Example:
Animated cartoons.

Synonym:
animise, animize

source: wordnet30
make lively(verb.change)

Synonym:
enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up
Antonym:
blunt, deaden

source: wordnet30
give new life or energy to(verb.body)

Synonym:
quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify

source: wordnet30
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.(verb)

source: webster1913

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