Definition of Animate

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make alive; arouse; inspire; excite
alive, living; full of life; lively
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(v. t.)
To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
  
(v. t.)
To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
  
(v. t.)
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
  
(a.)
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
  
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animate
\an"i*mate\ (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. animated; p. pr. & vb. n. animating.] [l. animatus, p. p. of animare, fr. anima breath, soul; akin to animus soul, mind, gr. &?; wind, skr. an to breathe, live, goth. us-anan to expire (us- out), icel. ?nd breath, anda to breathe, ohg. ando anger. cf. animal.]
1. to give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
2. to give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
3. to give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. the more to animate the people, he stood on high and cried unto them with a loud voice.


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To make alive.
Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
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JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Bywau = to animate, to enliven
Byweiddio = v. to animate
Bywiocau = v. to vivify, to animate
Bywiogi = to animate, to revive
Bywiol = a. living, animate
Eneidioli = v. to animate
WordNet 2.0

Verb
1. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
(synonym) inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
(hypernym) stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
(hyponym) encourage
2. give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
(synonym) animize, animise
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(derivation) animator
3. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
(synonym) enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
(hypernym) stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
(hyponym) jazz up, juice up, pep up, ginger up
(derivation) energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser, animator
4. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
(synonym) recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(hypernym) stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
(verb-group) come to, revive, resuscitate

Adjective
1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
(antonym) inanimate
(classification) linguistics
2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
(antonym) inanimate, nonliving, dead
(attribute) animateness, aliveness, liveness
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
(synonym) sentient
(similar) sensate
(attribute) sentience
Animate Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Phobia
Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being
Animate Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Oceanographic, Meteorologal & Climatologal abbreviations and acronyms
Atlantic Network of Interdisciplinary Moorings and Time-series for Europe
Animate Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan.

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