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Inanimate

adjective

Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things.

Not endowed with life. Synonyms: non-living, nonliving. "Inanimate objects"

Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse. Synonyms: breathless, pulseless. "Pulseless and dead"

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"Inanimate" Quotes from Famous Books

... gathered Wanda in his arms, calling her name, hoping for a twitch of life. Then he whipped out his knife and sawed through the cord and lowered the body upon the floor, felt for the heart, turned up the dropped eyelids, even shook the inanimate stiffening form of his pet. He knew it was in vain—that never again would she jump trustingly upon him, never again would she appear absurdly with one of his slippers in her wide mouth that always seemed to smile at the joke, coming down the drive to greet him; ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... triangular houses are not allowed, and for this reason. The angles of a Square (and still more those of an equilateral Triangle), being much more pointed than those of a Pentagon, and the lines of inanimate objects (such as houses) being dimmer than the lines of Men and Women, it follows that there is no little danger lest the points of a square or triangular house residence might do serious injury to an inconsiderate ...

— Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) • Edwin A. Abbott

... person? art thou chaste and uncontaminated with evil? I will not believe thy boasts, attributing (as I must, if I do believe) to the Gods the folly of thinking evil. Now then vaunt, and with thy feeding on inanimate food retail your doctrines upon men, and having Orpheus[35] for your master, revel it, reverencing the emptiness of many letters; which avail you not; ...

— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides

... could so affect another living being, can you suppose that a mesmerizer could also affect inanimate objects; ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... upon the slippery, blackened ladder, grasping the inanimate form of a little child. Loud cheers rent the air. But they pierced the hearts of those who bent over the senseless forms of the deliverer and the child. Most of their clothing, their hair, and eyebrows were burned, they were fearfully ...

— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee

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