animate - verb

• heighten or intensify
• give lifelike qualities to
• make lively
• give new life or energy to

animate - adjective

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

animate - thesaurus

animise   animize   enliven   exalt   inspire   invigorate   liven   quicken   reanimate   recreate   renovate   repair   revive   revivify   sentient   vivify