exanimate

See ex- and Latin animus (“soul, life”).

Adjective

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzænɪmɪt/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzænɪmeɪt/

exanimate (comparative more exanimate, superlative most exanimate)

1. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
   • Edmund Spenser

     carcasses exanimate

2. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
   • Thomson

     Pale […] wretch, exanimate by love.

• (dispirited): dejected

exanimate (third-person singular simple present exanimates, present participle exanimating, simple past and past participle exanimated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

• examinate, metaxenia

exanimāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exanimō