What is the meaning of animate?

verb

• Heighten or intensify.
  • usage: "These paintings exalt the imagination"
  • synonyms: inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
• Give lifelike qualities to.
  • usage: "animated cartoons"
  • synonyms: animize, animise
• Make lively.
  • usage: "let's liven up this room a bit"
  • synonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
• Give new life or energy to.
  • usage: "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
  • synonyms: recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

adjective

• Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
  • usage: "the word `dog' is animate"
• Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.
  • usage: "we are animate beings"
• Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness."the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage- T. E. Lawrence
  • synonyms: sentient