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exanimate

[eg-zan-uh-mit, -meyt, ek-san-] / ɛgˈzæn ə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt, ɛkˈsæn- /








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So long as I do not exanimate you with my letters, I remain content.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various

It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load.

From Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In the afternoon the mother and her eldest and youngest, supine and exanimate in the drawing-room, were surprised into expectancy by the sound of the front-door bell before three o'clock.

From Leonora by Arnold Bennett

But I, exanimate of quick Poesy,— O then, no more but even a soulless corse!

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

Silence on the bier, While I call God—call God!—so let thy mouth Be heir to those who are now exanimate.

From Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning




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