Definitions for animates

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animates an·i·mate

Spelling: [verb an-uh-meyt; adjective Animates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in animates (aaeimnst).

Definitions for animates

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 animates

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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