| animate | | |
| animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate | (v.) | heighten or intensify.; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| animate, animise, animize | (v.) | give lifelike qualities to.; "animated cartoons" |
| animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up | (v.) | make lively.; "let's liven up this room a bit" |
| animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify | (v.) | give new life or energy to.; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" |
| animate | (adj.) | belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.; "the word `dog' is animate" |
| animate | (adj.) | endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.; "we are animate beings" |
| animate, sentient | (adj.) | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" |
