Animate - Definition

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]