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   animate

   verb

   • 1. bring to life: "Prometheus stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men"
   • ▪ give inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigour to: "she has animated the government with a sense of political direction"
   • 2. give (a film or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques: "much-loved characters have been animated in this Franco-Canadian co-production"

   adjective

   • 1. alive or having life: "gods in a wide variety of forms, both animate and inanimate"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin animat- ‘instilled with life’, from the verb animare, from anima ‘life, soul’.

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