exanimate

From Latin exanimātus, perfect passive participle of exanimō (see ex-, -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ex- + animō, from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Adjective

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzænɪmɪt/

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Verb

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exanimate (comparative more exanimate, superlative most exanimate)

1. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:

     carckasses exanimate

2. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     Pale […] wretch, exanimate by love.

• (dispirited): dejected

exanimate (third-person singular simple present exanimates, present participle exanimating, simple past and past participle exanimated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

• examinate, metaxenia

exanimāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exanimō