animar
Meaning
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- (transitive) to cheer someone up (to make someone stop being sad)
- (pronominal) to cheer up (to stop being sad)
- (transitive) to inspire; to enliven
- (transitive) to animate (to give the appearance of motion to)
- (transitive) to resuscitate (to restore conscience to)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧ni‧mar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.niˈma(ʁ)/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin animāre.
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