Dictionary Entry
animate
animate is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
- 2transitive verb
To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
- 3transitive verb
To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
- 4adjective
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
- 5verb
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
- 6verb
make lively
"let's liven up this room a bit"
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- 7verb
give lifelike qualities to
"animated cartoons"
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- 8verb
heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
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- 9adjective
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness- T.E.Lawrence
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"
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- 10adjective
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings"
- 11adjective
belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word `dog' is animate"
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