animate in WordNet English dictionary

1. give new life or energy to
   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
   animate  recreate  reanimate  revive  renovate  repair  quicken  vivify  revivify 
   
2. make lively
   "let's liven up this room a bit"
   enliven  liven  liven up  invigorate  animate 
   
3. give lifelike qualities to
   "animated cartoons"
   animize  animise  animate 
   
4. heighten or intensify
   "These paintings exalt the imagination"
   inspire  animate  invigorate  enliven  exalt 
   

1. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
   "we are animate beings"
   animate 
   
2. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
   "the word `dog' is animate"
   animate 
   
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
   "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
   sentient  animate