'animate' definitions:

Definition of 'animate'

From: WordNet
adjective
Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate]
adjective
Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living, nonliving]
adjective
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient]
verb
Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt]
verb
Give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn: animize, animise, animate]
verb
Make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden]
verb
Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

Synonyms of 'animate'

From: Moby Thesaurus