disanimate

D2I1S1A1N1I1M3A1T1E1

verb

To deprive of life.

OriginEnglish animate ← Middle English animat(e) ← Latin animātus →
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Meanings

verbdisanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

present singular third person disanimates · participle present disanimating · participle past disanimated · past disanimated

  1. transitiveTo deprive of life.

    That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated

    1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
  2. transitiveTo deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

    Now will it best avail your majesty To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France: The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends, As it disanimates his enemies.

    1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Latindis-
  8. Middle Englishdis-
  9. Englishdis-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂enh₁-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂enh₁mos
  12. Proto-Italic*anamos
  13. Latinanimus
  14. Latinanima
  15. Latinanimō
  16. Latinanimātus
  17. Middle Englishanimat(e)
  18. Englishanimate
  19. Englishdisanimate

From dis- + animate.

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APA

disanimate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disanimate

MLA

“disanimate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disanimate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disanimate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disanimate.

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