- animate - belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
Antonym: inanimate
- animate - endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
Antonyms: inanimate, nonliving, dead, nonconscious
- sentient, animate - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
- inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt - heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
--1 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- animize, animise, animate - give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun animator2
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
--3 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun animator1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- 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"
--4 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody