Animate

1. a. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
2. v. t. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
3. v. t. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
4. v. t. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.