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animate
[an-uh-meyt, an-uh-mit]
verb (used with object)
to give life to; make alive.
God animated the dust.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:to make lively, vivacious, or vigorous; give zest or spirit to.
Her presence animated the party.
Synonyms: ,to fill with courage or boldness; encourage.
to animate weary troops.
Synonyms: , , , ,to move or stir to action; motivate.
He was animated by religious zeal.
Synonyms: , , , , ,to give motion to.
leaves animated by a breeze.
to render or produce (a story, character, movie, etc.) by using animation: to animate the characters in a video game;
to animate a children's story;
to animate the characters in a video game;
an animated film.
adjective
alive; possessing life.
animate creatures.
Antonyms:lively.
an animate expression of joy.
of or relating to animal life.
able to move voluntarily.
Linguistics.Ģżbelonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting beings regarded as having perception and volition (inanimate ).
animate
verb
to give life to or cause to come alive
to make lively; enliven
to encourage or inspire
to impart motion to; move to action or work
to record on film or video tape so as to give movement to
an animated cartoon
adjective
being alive or having life
gay, spirited, or lively
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- animately adverb
- animateness noun
- animatingly adverb
- interanimate verb (used with object)
- nonanimate adjective
- nonanimating adjective
- nonanimatingly adverb
- semianimate adjective
- unanimating adjective
- unanimatingly adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of animate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Itās no surprise that heās become the emblem of the āHow to Train Your Dragonā animated movies, the first of which arrived in 2010.
Paramount and the āSouth Parkā creators developed specials featuring the four animated boys in a fictional Colorado mountain town to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
One search, which could be traced back to a person's Instagram account because of their username and profile picture, asked Meta AI to generate an image of an animated character lying outside wearing only underwear.
At long last, āSuper Mario Bros.ā became a blockbuster animated film, and there are now three Super Nintendo World theme park properties, including one here in Los Angeles at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Drone displays are becoming highly sophisticated, she explains, with some drone shows featuring thousands of flying devices, allowing them to animate figures or patterns in incredible detail.
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When To Use
To animate is to make lively or give spirit to. Someone can animate a dull situation by bringing some energy to it, such as with humor, music, or anything that is associated with movement or emotion.To animate also means to give motion to, the way a cartoonist or animator does with drawings. Animated media include cartoons, 3D films, video games, and visual effects.To animate also means to motivate or to encourage to take action, as in Coach really animated the team with her pre-game speech.Animate can be used as an adjective to mean lively or full of energy, as in Carly had an animate spirit that people liked to be around.Animate can also mean able to move voluntarily. It can also broadly describe any living being as separate from inanimate objects, which cannot move on their own and donāt have their own will.When animate is used as an adjective, it is pronounced as [ an-uh-mit ], rather than [ an-uh-meyt ], as the verb form is.Example: I animate characters for childrenās shows using a computer program.
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