semianimate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semianimate (not comparable)
- Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.
- 2009, Lawrence Kramer, Why Classical Music Still Matters:
- As the balance of power gradually tips in favor of blockage, the semianimate voice of the instrument fades into the mechanism of silence […]