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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Inanimate :: Inanimate (v. t.) To animate.
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..
Vive :: Vive (a.) Lively; animated; forcible.
Resurrect :: Resurrect (v. t.) To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).
Heartener :: Heartener (n.) One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up..
Strengthen :: Strengthen (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
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..
Vivify :: Vivify (v. t.) To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition..
Unjust :: Unjust (a.) Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature..
Animism :: Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter..
Enlivener :: Enlivener (n.) One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates..
Ecphonesis :: Ecphonesis (n.) An animated or passionate exclamation.
Lively :: Lively (adv.) In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive..
Run :: Run (a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog..
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..
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..
Breather :: Breather (n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
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