animate
a nuh muht
- v heighten or intensify
- v give lifelike qualities to
animated cartoons - v make lively
- v give new life or energy to
- a belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
the word `dog' is animate - a endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
we are animate beings - a endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- For several years Ellis has been using tales from his days as a platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture.
- He can animate a pixel but not a Portman.
- Think of it: you have all of literature in front of you and a tongue that can animate written souls.