animate


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animate
v. make alive; arouse; inspire; excite
 
adj. alive, living; full of life; lively

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Animate
is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of animegames, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan.

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animate

Verb
1. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
(synonym) inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
(hypernym) stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
(hyponym) encourage
2. give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
(synonym) animize, animise
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(derivation) animator
3. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
(synonym) enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
(hypernym) stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
(hyponym) jazz up, juice up, pep up, ginger up
(derivation) energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser, animator
4. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
(synonym) recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
(hypernym) stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
(verb-group) come to, revive, resuscitate

Adjective
1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
(antonym) inanimate
(classification) linguistics
2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
(antonym) inanimate, nonliving, dead
(attribute) animateness, aliveness, liveness
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
(synonym) sentient
(similar) sensate
(attribute) sentience


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animare
v. animate, give life to, vivify, liven, inspirit; warm, excite, wake
 
animato
adj. animated, animate, living, lively, heated, racy

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animate
v. oživit; animovat
 
příd.jm. živý; životný