exanimate

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All along the wan stretch of Cheyne Walk the thin trees stood exanimate, with not a breath of wind to stir the snow that pied their soot-blackened branches.

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  1. To deprive of life; kill. Bailey, 1731.
  2. To dishearten; discourage. Bailey, 1731.
  3. Inanimate; lifeless. On whose sharp cliftes the ribs of vessels broke; And shivered ships, which had beene wrecked late, Yet stuck with carkases exanimate. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 7. At the beginning of the skirmish I had primed my pistols, and sat with them ready for use. … Shaykh Nur, exanimate with fear, could not move. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 361.

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  1. from Latin exanimatus, past participle of exanimare (later Italian esanimare), deprive of breath, life, or strength, from ex- privative + anima, life: see animate.
  2. = Old French exanimé = Italian esanimato, from Latin exanimatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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