exanimate
Americanadjective
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inanimate or lifeless.
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spiritless; disheartened.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of exanimate
1525–35; < Latin exanimātus (past participle of exanimāre to deprive of life), equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + anim ( a ) life, spirit + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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At her side the girl gazed curiously at the exanimate form.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
In the afternoon the mother and her eldest and youngest, supine and exanimate in the drawing-room, were surprised into expectancy by the sound of the front-door bell before three o'clock.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various
But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load.
From Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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