animate
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美[??n?me?t , ??n?m?t]
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Verb
1. heighten or intensify;
"These paintings exalt the imagination"2. give life-like qualities to;
"animated cartoons"3. make lively;
"let's liven up this room a bit"4. give new life or energy to;
"A hot soup will revive me""This will renovate my spirits""This treatment repaired my health"Adjective
1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings;
"the word `dog' is animate"2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life;
"we are animate beings"3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness;
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
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