What is the meaning of the word "animate"?

Definitions:

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings adjective
- the word `dog' is animate
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life adjective
- we are animate beings
to give lifelike qualities to verb
- You can work on animating the movements of the doll.
to give new life or energy to verb
- I animated the retirees.
to heighten or intensify verb
- Their hand motions animate their speech.
to make lively verb
- The teacher's exciting lessons often animate the sleepy students.