Animate
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Averted in Spirited Away; the art book points out that CG was used to animate the dishes when Chihiro's parents start nudging them around with their pig snouts.
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The game's resident evildoers all use animate dinosaur skeletons to start, and later on in the game, fully-fleshed zombiesaurs make an appearance.
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The movement and even design of characters will start to slip, especially if the show is bothering to animate heavy action scenes.
Source: Off Model
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Start and Animate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/start
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