animate

animate has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
• v. t.. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
• v. t.. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
• a.. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
• v.. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
• v.. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
• v.. give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"
• v.. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
• a.. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
• a.. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
• a.. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"