inanimate
adjective
not animate; lifeless.
inanimation
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a word derived from
inanimate.
Example Sentences
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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
Proceedings conducted with closed doors, but along the corridor, from time to time, rolled echoes which seemed to indicate that the first meeting of the Home-Rule Parliament was not lacking inanimation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 13, 1890 by Various
Men such as you and he, who cannot even lie with your eyelids, who will not condescend to cover up a secret by a moment of feigned inanimation, have many voices.
From The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
On Sunday the elections began with absolute inanimation.
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
