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1. Giving spirit and vivacity
   "Students will tests their knowledge of object motion by viewing animating sequences of pictures that model a set of physical conditions"
   - enlivening

1. Heighten or intensify
   "These paintings animate the imagination"
   - 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
   "A hot soup will animate me"
   - recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

See also: animator, invigorating

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

Encyclopedia: Animate