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ANIMATE
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Example:
the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Synonyms:
animate; sentient
Classified under:
Similar:
sensate (having physical sensation)
Attribute:
sentience (the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness)
Derivation:
animateness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
Example:
we are animate beings
Classified under:
Attribute:
aliveness; animateness; liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Antonym:
inanimate (not endowed with life)
Derivation:
animateness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
Example:
the word 'dog' is animate
Classified under:
Adjectives
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Antonym:
inanimate (belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they animate ... he / she / it animates
Past simple: animated
Past participle: animated
-ing form: animating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give new life or energy to
Example:
This treatment repaired my health
Synonyms:
animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "animate" is one way to...):
arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)
Verb group:
come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make lively
Example:
let's liven up this room a bit
Synonyms:
animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "animate" is one way to...):
arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "animate"):
ginger up; jazz up; juice up; pep up (make more interesting or lively)
inspirit; spirit; spirit up (infuse with spirit)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
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Derivation:
animator (someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Give lifelike qualities to
Example:
animated cartoons
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "animate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
animator (the technician who produces animated cartoons)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Heighten or intensify
Example:
These paintings exalt the imagination
Synonyms:
animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "animate" is one way to...):
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "animate"):
encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
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Context examples:
"Only one of my stupid speeches. I'm going to bed. Come, Peggy," said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded—
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When I was asked to recommend one for special service, I told the Admiralty they might take the names as they came, for the same spirit animated them all.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Martin could not puzzle out what strange whim animated them to this general acceptance of the things they had persistently rejected for two years.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was, Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Maria, wanting Henry Crawford's animating support, thought the subject better avoided.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
