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verb heighten or intensify
adjective belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
verb give lifelike qualities to
originFrom Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0