Animate and Call

Animate

Animate verb - To give life, vigor, or spirit to.

Show all Definitions

Call and animate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Call" instead a verb "Animate".

Call verb - To speak so as to be heard at a distance.

Show all Definitions

Animate and call are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Animate" instead a verb "Call".

Nearby Words: calling, called, caller, callback, callable

character	animate character	call character
people	animate people	call people
show	animate show	call show
house	animate house	call house
Other words: characters, myself.

The short story indicates the Witch Doctors commune with the spirits of the dead in a ghostly realm they call the "Unformed Land" and are able to call them forth to animate their zombies.

Source: Hollywood Voodoo
Escape from Monkey Island doesn't animate you taking things out of your pants per se, but if you pull up your inventory in the company of other characters, they will often call you out on the fact that you're technically rifling through your pants (with vaguely naughty jokes thrown in).

Source: Trouser Space
In The Bronze Age of Comic Books she took an earlier level in badass under writer Steve Englehart, who made her more assertive and aggressive and had her study real witchcraft with Agatha Harkness, learning to do things like animate inanimate objects and call meteors down from the sky.

Source: Comic Book / Scarlet Witch

Cite this Source

Call and Animate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/call

Animate & Call. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/call>.

Call or Animate. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/call.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "animate" and "call" have occurred on timeline