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Definition of animate

"animate" in the verb sense

1. inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt

heighten or intensify

"These paintings exalt the imagination"

2. animize, animise, animate

give lifelike qualities to

"animated cartoons"

3. enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate

make lively

"let's liven up this room a bit"

4. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

give new life or energy to

"A hot soup will revive me"

"This will renovate my spirits"

"This treatment repaired my health"

"animate" in the adjective sense

1. animate

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

"the word `dog' is animate"

2. animate

endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

"we are animate beings"

3. sentient, animate

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for animate

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. [ Abel Stevens ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people. [ Henry Clay ]

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animate in Scrabble®

The word animate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters animate:

ANIMATE
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANIMATE
(86 = 36 + 50)
AMENTIA
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANIMATE
(86 = 36 + 50)
AMENTIA
(86 = 36 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

amentia, animate

 

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animate in Words With Friends™

The word animate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters animate:

ANIMATE
(104 = 69 + 35)
AMENTIA
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

amentia, animate

 

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ANIMATE
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ANIMATE
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AMENTIA
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ANIMATE
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AMENTIA
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