Animates
[ænə,meɪts]
Examples
- 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.
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