All 7 Uses of
animate
in
Crime and Punishment
- Half-way upstairs he could hear the noise and animated conversation of a big gathering of people.†
Chpt 2.7
- "N-no," answered Dounia, with more animation.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- "You are wrong there," cried Porfiry Petrovitch; he was noticeably animated and kept laughing as he looked at Razumihin, which made him more excited than ever.†
Chpt 3.5
- He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.†
Chpt 5.1
- She showed Raskolnikov the blood in silence, and as soon as she could get her breath began whispering to him again with extreme animation and a hectic flush on her cheeks.†
Chpt 5.2
- The child suddenly becoming animated, chattered away in her baby language, something about "mammy" and that "mammy would beat her," and about some cup that she had "bwoken."†
Chpt 6.6
- Sometimes days and even weeks of gloomy silence and tears would be succeeded by a period of hysterical animation, and the invalid would begin to talk almost incessantly of her son, of her hopes of his futureā¦.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(animate as in: animated by her strong belief) inspire, make more lively, or bring to life