Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing.
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- verb Present participle of
animate .
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- adjective giving spirit and vivacity
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Examples
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Walt Disney has done devilishly well in animating evil incarnate at the climax of the film.
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Walt Disney has done devilishly well in animating evil incarnate at the climax of the film.
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The creative ad shows ground people animating from the sky.
2006 » June 2006
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The creative ad shows ground people animating from the sky.
Dog Says I Love You 2006
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Particularly animating is the locust simile, with its vivid specificity — “underground,” “seventeen-year” — and its concreteness (unique in this argument about abstractions).
A Close Read 2006
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Particularly animating is the locust simile, with its vivid specificity — “underground,” “seventeen-year” — and its concreteness (unique in this argument about abstractions).
A Close Read 2006
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It also appears at the Stella Artois website, where clips and credits for the whole award-winning series (click the advertising link) are archived, and at Glassworks, who did remarkable work in animating the aerial dogfights and smoke.
Stella pilot film Ray Girvan 2004
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It also appears at the Stella Artois website, where clips and credits for the whole award-winning series (click the advertising link) are archived, and at Glassworks, who did remarkable work in animating the aerial dogfights and smoke.
Archive 2004-06-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Should I succeed in animating it, Life and Death would appear to me as ideal bounds, which I shall break through and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Act I 1823
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Hopeless, and almost desperate, twenty times have I flung away my pen; – but the feelings of a mother, a mother agonizing for the fate of her child, again animating my courage, as often I have resumed it.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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