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Definition of animate : 1. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
2. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
3. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
4. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

Synonyms:

play, extol, instigate, prompt, alert, rectify, animated, inebriate, moving, light, kindle, happy, quicken, repair, urge on, exhort, inspirit, sensate, vivacious, reinvigorate, action, animise, embolden, come to, restitute, doctor, sentient, barrack, buoy, breathing, enkindle, remediate, bushel, inhale, liven, existing, touch on, revivify, freshen up, amend, lively, encourage, existent, animize, restore, revolutionize, cheer, revolutionise, stir, lift, whet, elate, resurrect, exalt, beatify, fix, uplift, furbish up, accelerate, renovate, vivify, hearten, recompense, vitalize, subsisting, quick, study atalive, indemnify, inspire, tickle pink, thrill, compensate, speed up, glorify, speed, proclaim, laud, brighten, flush, breathe in, active, mend, pep up, actuate, help, resort, recreate, brisk, refurbish, elevate, urge, root on, reanimate, remedy, motivate, resuscitate, liven up

electrify, arouse, impassion, exhilarate, fire, inflame, disquiet, disturb, stimulate

live, incarnate, living, organic, vital, alive

enliven, agitate, rouse, excite, revive, invigorate, energize, power, enthuse, activate, strengthen

Usage examples:

• The prisoners listened with the most profound attention to her glowing words, and regarded her almost as a celestial spirit, who had come to animate them to heroic deeds. - "Madame Roland, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott.
• She had no mournful gaze at all; but in the depths of the clear eyes he knew so well, there was a coil of something animate, whatever it might be. - "One of Our Conquerors, Complete", George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009.
• It is an animate, living thing, a ray of warmth in the dreary evenings. - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", Alexander Berkman.