Definition of animate Animate

/æˈnʌmʌt/ - [anumut] - an•i•mate

We found 22 definitions of animate from 7 different sources.

What does animate mean?

WordNet

Verb animates, animating, animated
animate - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
		recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
		energise, energize, perk up, brace, arouse, stimulate gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
		enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
		blunt, deaden make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
		energise, energize, perk up, brace, arouse, stimulate gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
		ginger up, jazz up, juice up, pep up make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"
		inspirit, spirit, spirit up infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"
animate - heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
		inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
		shake up, stimulate, excite, stir, shake cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
		encourage spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"
animate - give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"
		animize, animise
		modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage"
Adjective
animate - endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
animate - belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
		linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature
animate - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
		sentient
		insentient, insensate devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"

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Wiktionary

animate (Verb)
To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
animate (Verb)
To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.
animate (Adjective)
That which lives.
animate (Adjective)
Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
animate (Adjective)
Dynamic, energetic.
animate (Adjective)
Having a referent that includes a human or animal.
animate (Adjective)
Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

animate (v. t.)
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
animate (v. t.)
To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
animate (v. t.)
To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
animate (a.)
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

animate
To impart motion or the appearance of motion to (e.g. a cartoon).

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

animate
an′im-āt, v.t. to give life to: to enliven or inspirit: to actuate.—adj. living: possessing animal life.—adj. An′imated, lively: full of spirit: endowed with life.—adv. Animat′edly.—p.adj. An′imating.—adv. Animat′ingly.—ns. Animā′tion, liveliness: vigour; An′imator, he who, or that which, animates. [See Animal.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

animate
The giving power or encouragement.--To animate a battery, to place guns in its embrasures.--To animate a needle, to magnetize it.--To animate the crew in various ways for any special duty.

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animate, verb, present, 1st person singular of animate (infinitive).
animate, verb (infinitive).

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Definition of animate Animate

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