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Adjective animating has 1 sense
- animating, enlivening - giving spirit and vivacity
Antonym: debilitating (indirect, via invigorating)
Verb animate has 4 senses
- inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt - heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
--1 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- animize, animise, animate - give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
--3 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
--4 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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