· heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

Synonym(s): inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt

Hypernym(s): stimulate, shake, shake_up, excite, stir

· give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"

Synonym(s): animize, animise

Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify

· make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"

Synonym(s): enliven, liven, liven_up, invigorate

Hypernym(s): stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk_up

· give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

Synonym(s): recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

Hypernym(s): stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk_up

· belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"

Antonym(s): inanimate

· endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

Antonym(s): inanimate

· endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence

Synonym(s): sentient