Animated a veil badly (5)
I believe the answer is:
alive
'animated' is the definition.
(I know that animated can be written as alive)
'a veil badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters (letters in the wrong order).
'veil' is an anagram of 'live'.
'a'+'live'='ALIVE'
(Other definitions for alive that I've seen before include "Still in use, not dead" , "Existing - vigorous" , "Teeming (with)" , "Quick - breathing" , "answer, as it happens" .)