Definition of animate

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Animate (v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

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Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue..
Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..
Abiological :: Abiological (a.) Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
Enlivener :: Enlivener (n.) One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates..
Act :: Act (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..
Interanimate :: Interanimate (v. t.) To animate or inspire mutually.
Stimulate :: Stimulate (v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory..
Inanimated :: Inanimated (a.) Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated.
Hearten :: Hearten (v. t.) To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
Liveliness :: Liveliness (n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter..
Inlive :: Inlive (v. t.) To animate.
Enliven :: Enliven (v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music..
Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book..
Parusia :: Parusia (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events..
Vehemence :: Vehemence (n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite..
Go :: Go (v. i.) To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied..
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