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(verb) heighten or intensify. Synonyms: inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt. Examples: "These paintings exalt the imagination."

(verb) give lifelike qualities to. Synonyms: animize, animise. Examples: "Animated cartoons."

(verb) make lively. Synonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate. Examples: "Let's liven up this room a bit."

(verb) give new life or energy to. Synonyms: recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify. Examples: "A hot soup will revive me." "This will renovate my spirits." "This treatment repaired my health."

(adj) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings. Synonyms: animate (vs. inanimate). Examples: "The word `dog' is animate."

(adj) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life. Synonyms: animate (vs. inanimate). Examples: "We are animate beings."

(adj) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. Synonyms: sentient (vs. insentient). Examples: "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on god's stage"- t.e.lawrence."