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ANIMATE

Definition:

[verb] heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
Synonyms: inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
[verb] give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
Synonyms: animize, animise
[verb] make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
Synonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
[verb] give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
Synonyms: recreate, rerevive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
[adjective] belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
[adjective] endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
[adjective] endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
Synonyms: sentient