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Meaning of animate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  animate
      adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living
             beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: {inanimate}]
      2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life;
         "we are animate beings" [ant: {inanimate}, {non-living},
         {nonliving}]
      3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
         living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"-
         T.E.Lawrence [syn: {sentient}, {animate}] [ant: {insensate},
         {insentient}]
      v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the
           imagination" [syn: {inspire}, {animate}, {invigorate},
           {enliven}, {exalt}]
      2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn:
         {animize}, {animise}, {animate}]
      3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn:
         {enliven}, {liven}, {liven up}, {invigorate}, {animate}]
         [ant: {blunt}, {deaden}]
      4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
         "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
         health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive},
         {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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