animate

animate
v
1. create, breathe life into; vivify, quicken, vitalize; enliven, invigorate, energize, fortify, strengthen.
2. encourage, inspire, inspirit, buoy, hearten, en-hearten, embolden; elate, gladden, cheer, Inf. pep up, Inf. buck up; delight, exhilarate.
3. actuate, activate, motivate, move, rouse, waken; incite, stimulate, arouse, rouse up; fire, kindle, enkindle, stir, goad, spur on, prod, prick; push, egg on, urge, impel, exhort; boost, promote, prompt, Inf. spark, Inf. sparkplug, instigate, foment, provoke; excite, work up.
adj
4. alive, live, living, breathing; existing, existent; sensible, animal, self-moving, self-propelling.
5. lively, spirited, vivacious. See animated (def. I).

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