[
US
/ˈænəˌmeɪt, ˈænəmət/
]
VERB
-
make lively
let's liven up this room a bit -
heighten or intensify
These paintings exalt the imagination -
give new life or energy to
This treatment repaired my health
This will renovate my spirits
A hot soup will revive me -
give lifelike qualities to
animated cartoons
ADJECTIVE
-
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 -
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
we are animate beings
How To Use animate In A Sentence
- Shaun Anthony Markey fled from Woolworth's store in Hereford with a battery-operated model of the chisel-jawed character, who features in the animated film Toy Story.
- The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
- An Iron Ancestor is a reanimated and iron - forged dead body possessed by a ghost.
- And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
- Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease. Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage"
- It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that.
- I feared enormous crowds at Chawton paying hefty admission fees to file past animated wax figures.
- A sparkle in his eyes animated his face whenever he smiled.
- In fact, animated political toons have been part of the Web ever since bandwidth would allow.
- They were animated by religious zeal.
