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disanimated

disanimated is the simple past and past participle of disanimate.

Meaning of disanimate

Verb

disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of life.
    • That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
  2. (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
    • Now will it best avail your majesty
      To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
      The presence of a king engenders love
      Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
      As it disanimates his enemies.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Adjective

disanimated (comparative more disanimated, superlative most disanimated)

  1. despirited

Forms of disanimated

comparativemore disanimated
superlativemost disanimated

Questions about disanimated

What does disanimated mean?
Disanimated means despirited.
What is disanimated the simple past and past participle of?
Disanimated is the simple past and past participle of disanimate.
What part of speech is disanimated?
Disanimated is an adjective.

Words near disanimated in the dictionary

  1. disanchored
  2. disanchoring
  3. disanchors
  4. disangelical
  5. disanimate
  6. disanimated
  7. disanimates
  8. disanimating
  9. disanimation
  10. disannex
  11. disannexation

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