animate
/ˈæn.ə.mət/ adjective C1- That lives.
- That has (or is believed to have) a spirit (anima) and/or some amount of consciousness and sentience, either being alive or supernaturally seeming alive.
- Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
- Dynamic, energetic. · She is an engaging and animate speaker.
- having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.) · Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.
- Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
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Sight and hearing were the only senses remaining, and they, like two solitary sparks, remained to animate the miserable body which seemed fit for nothing but the grave; it was only, however, by means of one of these senses that he could reveal the thoughts and feelings that still occupied his mind, and the look by which he gave expression to his inner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveller sees by night across some desert place, and knows that a living being dwells beyond the silence and obscurity.
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