Definition: exanimate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

exanimate
     adj : deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn:
           lifeless]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Exanimate \Ex*an"i*mate\, a. [L. exanimatus, p. p. of exanimare
   to deprive of life or spirit; ex out + anima air, breath,
   life, spirit.]
   1. Lifeless; dead. [R.] ``Carcasses exanimate.'' --Spenser.

   2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.]
      ``Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love.'' --Thomson.
Exanimate \Ex*an"i*mate\, v. t.
   To deprive of animation or of life. [Obs.]