7. (verb)animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify give new life or energy to Synonyms: speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, animate, remediate, quicken, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, recreate, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify Antonyms: non-living, inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'animate'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. animate Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of Synonyms: alive, active, breathing, live, quick, alert, brisk, lively, subsisting, animate, existent, living, vivacious, animated, existing Antonyms: dead, defunct, dull, lifeless, deceased, dispirited, inanimate, spiritless
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