give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate
sentient: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T E Lawrence