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animate

English

🔊 endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
“we are animate beings”
🔊 belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
“the word `dog' is animate”
🔊 endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
“the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage”
🔊 give new life or energy to
“A hot soup will revive me”
🔊 heighten or intensify
“These paintings exalt the imagination”
🔊 give lifelike qualities to
“animated cartoons”
🔊 make lively
“let's liven up this room a bit”