animate

Adjective

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

• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
  • we are animate beings
    

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

Verb

• give new life or energy to
  • A hot soup will revive me
    
  • This will renovate my spirits
    
  • This treatment repaired my health
    

• make lively
  • let's liven up this room a bit
    

• give lifelike qualities to
  • animated cartoons
    

• heighten or intensify
  • These paintings exalt the imagination
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sentient , recreate , reanimate , revive , renovate , repair , quicken , vivify , revivify , enliven , liven , liven up , invigorate , animize , animise , inspire , exalt
• Antonyms: 
  insentient , insensate , inanimate , nonliving , non-living , deaden , blunt