Animate and Dead

Animate

Animate adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Usage example: an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping

Dead is an antonym for animate in topics: lively, alive.

Dead

Dead adjective - No longer living.
Usage example: I inherited this heirloom from my dead great-grandfather

Animate is an antonym for dead in topics: deceased, live, complete, indifferent, not working.

Nearby Word: deadly

Both words in one sentence

  • White Mask of Doom Similar masks are used by Bloodspeakers to animate zombies from the bodies of the dead.
  • Animate Dead In Mortasheen, the fungus creature Mushtomb has this power, spreading its slimy spores on dead tissue to animate it to follow its every whim.
    Source: Animate Dead
  • Not Using the "Z" Word Most of them are even animate at some point, due to the main character's ability to let the spirits of the dead briefly animate their own bodies.
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