释义 |
Verb: animate 'anu`meyt- Heighten or intensify
- inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt - Give lifelike qualities to
"animated cartoons" - animize, animise [Brit] - Make lively
- enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate - Give new life or energy to
- recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify Adjective: animate anumut- Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word 'dog' is animate" - Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings" - Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- sentient
Derived forms: animating, animates, animated See also: aliveness, animateness, animator, liveness, sensate, sentience Type of: alter, arouse, brace, change, energise [Brit], energize, excite, modify, perk up, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir Antonym: inanimate Encyclopedia: Animate |