The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ANIMATE
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More clues leading to the result ANIMATE
- Living with a partner from Belfast, perhaps
- Enliven originally apathetic nurse with one Bud
- Arouse tailless beast with time and energy
- Ace companion in Belfast fire?
- Revive cannibal’s victim, as Spooner might ’ave said
- Fire a colleague from Belfast?
- Mischief-maker follows a game live
- A brief dram plus Bud – that’s living
- Living back at home with Mum? Worried about that
- Living in caravan, I’m a tearaway
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What does ANIMATE mean?
ANIMATE verb- To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
- To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.
- That which lives.
- Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
- Dynamic, energetic.
- (grammar, of a noun or pronoun) Having a referent that includes a human, animal, plant or other entity which is considered alive.
- (grammar) Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.