inanimate
adjective
not animate; lifeless.
inanimation
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a word derived from
inanimate.
Example Sentences
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On Sunday the elections began with absolute inanimation.
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
His studied inanimation, his crudely self-conscious pose, his dull, little, peasant eyes staring at the faces that drift by in the lobby—these ask for translation.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
I chewed that mixture of bread, dust and tobacco, but I could not swallow it, and gave it all masticated to one of my young brothers, who had fallen from inanimation.
The whole face was pretty much the same, only thinner perhaps, and with a look of apathy, of inanimation, that was foreign to my recollection of it.
From Grey Roses by Henry Harland
After death, inanimation; only the inanimate is changeless.
From The Grey Cloak by Thomas Mitchell Peirce
