Definition of animate

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Animate (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre..

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Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies..
Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
Spiritful :: Spirited (a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer..
Animatedly :: Animatedly (adv.) With animation.
Frigid :: Frigid (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service..
Invigorate :: Invigorate (v. t.) To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.
Quick :: Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Lifeless; dead.
Behavior :: Behavior (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle..
-ate :: -ate () As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated..
Kindle :: Kindle (v. i.) Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
Infuse :: Infuse (v. t.) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
Reanimate :: Reanimate (v. t.) To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits..
Vive :: Vive (a.) Lively; animated; forcible.
Animated :: Animated (a.) Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
Animation :: Animation (n.) The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive..
Sensorium :: Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations..
Merciless :: Merciless (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves..
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body..
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