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animate

adjective
  1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
    sentient
  2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
    “we are animate beings”
  3. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
    “the word `dog' is animate”
verb
  1. to give new life or energy to
    “I animated the retirees.”
    repair
  2. to make lively
    “The teacher's exciting lessons often animate the sleepy students.”
    invigorateenlivenlivenliven up
  3. to give lifelike qualities to
    “You can work on animating the movements of the doll.”
    animizeanimise
  4. to heighten or intensify
    “Their hand motions animate their speech.”
    inspireinvigorateenlivenexalt