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1. Heighten or intensify
   - inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
    
2. Give lifelike qualities to
   "animated cartoons"
   - animize, animise [Brit]
    
3. Make lively
   - enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
    
4. Give new life or energy to
   - recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

1. Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
   "the word 'dog' is animate"
    
2. Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
   "we are animate beings"
    
3. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
   - sentient

Derived forms: animated, animates, animating

See also: aliveness, animateness, animator, liveness, sensate, sentience

Type of: alter, arouse, brace, change, energise [Brit], energize, excite, modify, perk up, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir

Antonym: inanimate

Encyclopedia: Animate