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Definition of animates

"animates" 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"

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

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Quotations for animates

Health is the soul that animates all enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises. [ La Bruyere ]

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. [ Goethe ]

A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable. [ Aristotle ]

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert: that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. [ Johnson ]

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animates in Scrabble®

The word animates is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters animates:

ANIMATES
(117)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

amentia, amnesia, animate, inmates, stamina

 

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animates in Words With Friends™

The word animates is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters animates:

ANIMATES
(120)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

amentia, amnesia, animate, inmates, stamina

 

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ANIMATES
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Words containing the sequence animates

Words that start with animates (1 word)

animates

Words with animates in them (1 word)

animates

Words that end with animates (3 words)

animatesdisanimatesreanimates
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Word Growth involving animates

Shorter words in animates

an animate

at ate mate animate

at mat mate animate

ma mat mate animate

at ate mate mates

at mat mate mates

ma mat mate mates

Longer words containing animates

disanimates

reanimates