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Definition of Inanimate
Inanimate

To animate.

Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.

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Inanimate Quotations

Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'Rourke

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
Michael Behe

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
Mitt Romney

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi

Inanimate Translations

inanimate in German is leblos, unbelebt, leblos
inanimate in Spanish is inanimado


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