heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"
make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence