animate

Meanings

• heighten or intensify
• give lifelike qualities to
  • "animated cartoons"
• make lively
• give new life or energy to
• 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; - T.E.Lawrence

Synonyms

animise, animize, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, sentient, vivify