What is the meaning of animating?

verb

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

adjective

• Giving spirit and vivacity.
  • synonyms: enlivening