exanimate

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English

WOTD – 26 September 2011, 26 September 2012, 26 September 2013, 26 September 2014

Etymology

See ex- and Latin animus (“soul, life”).

Pronunciation

Adjective
Verb

Adjective

exanimate (comparative more exanimate, superlative most exanimate)

  1. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
  2. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.

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Verb

exanimate (third-person singular simple present exanimates, present participle exanimating, simple past and past participle exanimated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

exanimāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exanimō
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