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semianimate

adj

Etymology

From semi- + animate.

  1. derived from animātus
  2. inherited from animate
  3. prefixed as semianimate — “semi + animate”

Definitions

  1. Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.

    • As the balance of power gradually tips in favor of blockage, the semianimate voice of the instrument fades into the mechanism of silence […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semianimate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA