Definitions for animate

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animate an·i·mate

Spelling: [verb an-uh-meyt; adjective Animate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in animate (aaeimnt).

Definitions for animate

adjective

1. alive; possessing life:
2. lively:
3. of or relating to animal life.
4. able to move voluntarily.
5. Linguistics. belonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting beings regarded as having perception and volition (opposed to inanimate).

verb (used with object)

1. to give life to; make alive:
2. to make lively, vivacious, or vigorous; give zest or spirit to:
3. to fill with courage or boldness; encourage:
4. to move or stir to action; motivate:
5. to give motion to:
6. to render or produce (a story, character, movie, etc.) by using animation:

Origin of animate

1375-1425; late Middle English animat Latin animātus filled with breath or air, quickened, animated (past participle of animāre). See anima, -ate

Examples for animate

I admire his vision in his domestic affairs and the deeply Jewish values that seem to animate him.

His fingers were rubbing back and forth on the photo, as if he was trying to animate his baby back to life.

The life here, if not animate, is at least intelligent—and it is not friendly.

But willingly would I breathe a soul to animate your timidity.

No sound escaped her lips; no thought for herself or for others seemed to animate her.

Once, the humanist idea used to animate the very core of the university.

Investors clearly believe in the value of patents and the inventions they animate.

She is nevertheless in the body, and continues to animate it, but she perceives not her own action.

It was an animate statue to the excellence of good, clean living.

It is the economic questions—about the gap between rich and poor—that animate the party now.