Animate
[adj] endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
[adj] endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
[adj] (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
[adj] relating to animal life as distinct from plant life; "animate life"
[v] give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
[v] make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
[v] give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
[v] heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
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Synonyms
animise, animize, enliven, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, sensate, sentient, vivify
Related Terms
aboveground, activate, activated, active, actuate, alert, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animated, arouse, biological, biotic, boost, brace, brace up, breathe life into, breathing, brighten, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to li