animate

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Verb
1. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
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2. give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
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3. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
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4. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
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Adjective
1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
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2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
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3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
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