Give inspiration to a friend from Belfast region? (7)
I believe the answer is:
animate
'give inspiration to' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a friend from belfast region?' is the wordplay.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'friend from belfast' becomes 'imat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'region?' becomes 'E' (E region is an example).
'an'+'imat'+'e'='ANIMATE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for animate that I've seen before include "Inspire" , "Infuse with life" , "Put life into as with cartoon" , "Bring to life, like cartoon" , "Eat main (anag.)" .)