disanimate

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ animate.

Verb

disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of life.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston, , →OCLC:
      That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated
  2. (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

References

disanimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

disanimate

  1. inflection of disanimare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

disanimate f pl

  1. feminine plural of disanimato

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