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animate
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
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adjective
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
“{'source': 'T.E.Lawrence', 'text': "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"}”
adjective
Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
“We are animate beings”
adjective
Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
“The word ‘dog’ is animate”
verb
Give new life or energy to
“A hot soup will revive me”
verb
Make lively
“Let's liven up this room a bit”
verb
Give lifelike qualities to
“Animated cartoons”
verb
Heighten or intensify
“These paintings exalt the imagination”
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{'source': 'T.E.Lawrence', 'text': "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"}
We are animate beings
The word ‘dog’ is animate
A hot soup will revive me
This will renovate my spirits
This treatment repaired my health
Let's liven up this room a bit
Animated cartoons
These paintings exalt the imagination
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