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Type Words
Synonyms animise, animize
Type of alter, change, modify
Derivation animator


animated cartoons.
Type Words
Synonyms enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate
Type of stimulate, excite, stir, shake, shake up
Has types encourage
Type Words
Synonyms enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up
Type of arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate
Has types spirit, spirit up, juice up, ginger up, jazz up, inspirit, pep up
Derivation animator
Type Words
Synonyms quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify
Type of brace, perk up, arouse, energise, energize, stimulate
Verb group revive, resuscitate, come to
Type Words
Synonyms sentient
Derivation animateness
Type Words


the word `dog' is animate.
Type Words
Derivation animateness


we are animate beings.

Examples of animate

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The staircases move, you can talk to all students and the portraits all animate.
From the usatoday.com
Similar sentiments will animate actions on both sides as Aug. 2 fast approaches.
From the abcnews.go.com
As an animate, a person could serve the society as a male-role or a female-role.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Because the episode takes place in winter, Kramer found it difficult to animate.
From the en.wikipedia.org
On one hand the anthropomorphic brigade who see mammals as animate cuddly toys.
From the bbc.co.uk
But not every Islamist movement is inspired by the ideas that animate al-Qaeda.
From the economist.com
Factory shifts, late-night drinking and ill-advised affairs animate this world.
From the independent.co.uk
You can layer, crop, animate, colour, apply transparency to objects on your page.
From the eu.techcrunch.com
Golden tussocks animate the hillside scene, rippling in the crisp morning breeze.
From the odt.co.nz
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  • Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
  • Inspire: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
  • Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
  • Animize: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"
  • Enliven: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
  • Sentient: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
  • 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. Currently, there are 38 Animate stores in Japan, and one in Taipei, Taiwan. ...
  • AniMates is a simulation-style action game released on September 17, 2007 for the Nintendo DS. In the game, the user has the ability to raise his own Animate from a small baby hatchling to a full-grown, mature Animate.
  • Animacy is a grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns based on how sentient or alive the referent of the noun in a given taxonomic scheme is. ...