Animate
Kick
Kick verb - To express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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She has a cute talking animal side-kick, a magic wand, and the ability to animate vegetables into evil minions (or to jump into whatever she's cooking).
Source: Surprise Creepy -
Contrast Not Too Dead to Save the Day, where the character actually is dead, but somehow still animate enough to kick ass.
Source: Normally, I Would Be Dead Now -
However, it costs 400 gems to learn, has a long wind-up time in which you are vulnerable, and in the time it takes to animate the kick you could probably squeeze in two hair whips anyway.
Source: Video Game / Shantae
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Kick and Animate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/kick
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