Animate
['ænɪmeɪt] or ['ænɪmet]
Definition
(verb.) give new life or energy to; 'A hot soup will revive me'; 'This will renovate my spirits'; 'This treatment repaired my health'.
(adj.) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; 'we are animate beings' .
(adj.) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; 'the word `dog' is animate' .
Editor: Sallust--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
(v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
(v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
(a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Checker: Thomas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Quicken, inform, make alive, give life to, vivify.[2]. Invigorate, fortify, revive, give vigor or energy to.[3]. Stimulate, waken, rouse, whet, incite, impel, excite, fire, heat, urge, provoke, warm, goad, kindle, prompt, work up, set on.[4]. Encourage, inspire, inspirit, embolden, enhearten, hearten, exhilarate, gladden, elate, elevate, flush, ERECT.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enliven, Inspirit, instigate, quicken, exhilarate, embolden, rouse, revivify,cheer, gladden, stir, prompt, incite, stimulate
ANT:Dishearten, deter, cow, stifle, depress, damp, deaden, discourage
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Definition
v.t. to give life to: to enliven or inspirit: to actuate.—adj. living: possessing animal life.—adj. An′imated lively: full of spirit: endowed with life.—adv. Animat′edly.—p.adj. An′imating.—adv. Animat′ingly.—ns. Animā′tion liveliness: vigour; An′imator he who or that which animates.
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Examples
- It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What is the cause of the efficiency, the thoroughness, the desire to serve which animate the state? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As I have had to abstract from life in order to communicate, so you are compelled to animate my abstractions, in order to understand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No matter what the object required may be, whether animate or inanimate, if it is necessary for the play it is found and pressed into service. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are obliged, therefore, to use every art which can animate the devotion of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Reason only answered, At your peril you cherish that idea, or suffer its influence to animate any writing of yours! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They animate and enrich the ordinary course of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! Jane Austen. Emma.
- By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Em'ly, indeed, said little all the evening; but she looked, and listened, and her face got animated, and she was charming. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was a happy circumstance, and animated Mr. Woodhouse for some time. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They were propagated with all that enthusiastic zeal which commonly animates the spirit of party, when it attacks established authority. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A sweet countenance is never so sweet as when the moved heart animates it with compassionate tenderness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We see the wire and the electro-magnet, but not the vital principle which animates it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Ability to use even in a masterly way an established technique gives no warranty of artistic work, for the latter also depends upon an animating idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It inspired little more than an animating curiosity. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Each has become specialized not merely in its appliances and its demands upon time, but in its aim and animating spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The principle of a physician's conduct is its animating aim and spirit--the care for the diseased. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And when the animating motive is desire for private profit or personal power, this limitation is inevitable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Maria, wanting Henry Crawford's animating support, thought the subject better avoided. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Sam