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animate

adjective as in alive

adjective as in lively

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It is the economic questions—about the gap between rich and poor—that animate the party now.

Once, the humanist idea used to animate the very core of the university.

Investors clearly believe in the value of patents and the inventions they animate.

His fingers were rubbing back and forth on the photo, as if he was trying to animate his baby back to life.

I admire his vision in his domestic affairs and the deeply Jewish values that seem to animate him.

The birds, moreover, were singing merrily, and all Nature seemed animate and gay.

That which would have disheartened and disarmed other men, seemed only to animate him with all Macbeth's wild courage of despair.

A new spirit would animate the community, from which we might hope the most happy results.

But it was enough for that white-clad figure to stand revealed in the thickest of the carnage to animate the men to heroic effort.

Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hearThey breathe a soul to animate thy clay.

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On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to animate, such as: breathing, live, living, moving, mortal, and viable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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