animate
1. heighten or intensify (Freq. 1)
- These paintings exalt the imagination
• Syn:
inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
• Derivationally related forms:
exaltation (for: exalt), invigoration (for: invigorate)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
• Hyponyms:
encourage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. give lifelike qualities to
- animated cartoons
• Syn:
animize, animise
• Derivationally related forms:
animator
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. make lively
- let's liven up this room a bit
• Syn:
enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
• Ant:
deaden (for: enliven)
• Derivationally related forms:
animator, invigoration (for: invigorate), enlivener (for: enliven)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• Hyponyms:
jazz up, juice up, pep up, ginger up, spirit,
spirit up, inspirit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. give new life or energy to
- A hot soup will revive me
- This will renovate my spirits
- This treatment repaired my health
• Syn:
recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair,
quicken, vivify, revivify
• Derivationally related forms:
revivification (for: revivify), vivification (for: vivify), quickener (for: quicken), recreation (for: recreate)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• Verb Group:
come to, revive, resuscitate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings (Freq. 1)
- the word 'dog' is animate
• Ant:
inanimate
• Topics:
linguistics
2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
- we are animate beings
• Ant:
inanimate
• Derivationally related forms:
animateness
• Attrubites:
animateness, aliveness, liveness
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
• Syn:
sentient
• Ant:
insentient (for: sentient)
• Similar to:
sensate
• Derivationally related forms:
animateness, sentience (for: sentient)
• Attrubites:
sentience
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