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transanimate

transanimate verb: to transfer a soul conveyed from another body or being.

Verb

transanimate (third-person singular simple present transanimates, present participle transanimating, simple past and past participle transanimated)

  1. (transitive) To transfer a soul conveyed from another body or being.
    • That Maxime is true : Love transanimates into the thing loved.1631, Richard Brathwaite, The English Gentleman

Forms of transanimate

third-person singular presenttransanimates
present participletransanimating
past participletransanimated
pasttransanimated

Origin of transanimate

From trans- + animate.

Words formed from transanimate

Questions about transanimate

What does transanimate mean?
Transanimate means to transfer a soul conveyed from another body or being.
What part of speech is transanimate?
Transanimate is a verb.
What is the past tense of transanimate?
The past tense of transanimate is transanimated.

Words near transanimate in the dictionary

  1. transanal
  2. transanally
  3. transancestral
  4. transandrophobia
  5. transandrophobic
  6. transanimate
  7. transanimated
  8. transanimates
  9. transanimating
  10. transanimation
  11. transanimations

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