Animate and Raise

Animate

Animate verb - To give life, vigor, or spirit to.
Usage example: Mr. Clark animates history for his sixth graders by frequently showing up for class dressed like some famous historical figure

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

Raise

Raise verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.

Animate and raise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Animate" instead a verb "Raise".

Nearby Words: raised, raising

Common collocations

people animate people raise people
hand animate hand raise hand
weapon animate weapon raise weapon
hands animate hands raise hands
Other words: zombies, corpses.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Battle for Wesnoth Ambidextrous Sprite Animate Dead: Most of the Undead are supposedly created this way, though for obvious balance reasons it takes gold to raise new undead using your leader unit.
  • Series / Charles in Charge Egg Sitting: In the appropriately titled "The Egg and Us", Sarah and Jamie are assigned a project to raise an egg as a child (which Jamie shrugs off somewhat, seeing as it is an egg, and not an animate object).
  • The Minion Master Like the Death Knight, who could raise 6 short-lived but invincible minions using its ultimate ability, Animate Dead, or the Night Elf Warden, who could summon a minion master, the Avatar of Vengeance, who then spammed further, weaker summons called Spirits of Vengeance.
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