All 5 Uses of
animate
in
The War of the Worlds
- It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.†
Chpt 1.1
- I fancy the popular expectation of a heap of charred corpses was disappointed at this inanimate bulk.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Most of them were excited and animated by their strange experience.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this.†
Chpt 2.2
- Dim and wonderful is the vision I have conjured up in my mind of life spreading slowly from this little seed bed of the solar system throughout the inanimate vastness of sidereal space.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(animate as in: animate v. inanimate) alive; or (more rarely) an animal--not a plant; or (more rarely still) the degree to which as an animal feels and thinkseditor's notes: This sense of animate is typically contrasted with inanimate. The adjective animate describes something as being alive--such as a dog. The adjective inanimate describes something as not being alive--such as a rock.
Note that this sense of animate is pronounced differently than other senses. Most senses whether used as a noun or an adjective) rhyme with mate, but this sense rhymes more closely with mutt".
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(animate as in: animated by her strong belief) inspire, make more lively, or bring to life