animate
- 1) verb, to give life to or cause to come alive
- 2) verb, to make lively; enliven
- 3) verb, to encourage or inspire
- 4) verb, to impart motion to; move to action or work
- 5) verb, to record on film or video tape so as to give movement to
- 6) adjective, being alive or having life
- 7) adjective, gay, spirited, or lively
Etymology
C16: from Latin animāre to fill with breath, make alive, from anima breath, spirit
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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alive, enliven, encourage, excite, urge, inspire, stir, spark, move, fire, spur, stimulate, revive, activate, rouse, prod, quicken, incite, instigate, kick-start (informal), impel, energize, kindle, embolden, invigorate, gladden, vitalize, vivify, inspirit, living, live, moving, breathing