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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make lively or spirited; animate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To give life, action, or motion to; make vigorous or active; vivify; quicken.
  2. To give spirit or vivacity to; animate; make sprightly, gay, or cheerful.
  3. Synonyms To exhilarate, cheer, inspirit, gladden, invigorate, rouse, wake up.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete, transitive To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
  2. v. transitive To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken.
  2. v. To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. heighten or intensify
  2. v. make lively

Etymologies

  1. Life + en- -en, intensifying verbal circumfix. (Wiktionary)

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