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" ;

1. (

• animate ,

) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" ;

2. (

• animate ,

) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" ;

3. (

• sentient ,
• animate ,

) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence ;