Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make lively or spirited; animate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To give life, action, or motion to; make vigorous or active; vivify; quicken.
- To give spirit or vivacity to; animate; make sprightly, gay, or cheerful.
- Synonyms To exhilarate, cheer, inspirit, gladden, invigorate, rouse, wake up.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete, transitive To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
- v. transitive To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken.
- v. To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate
WordNet 3.0
- v. heighten or intensify
- v. make lively
Etymologies
- Life + en- -en, intensifying verbal circumfix. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Even the studious turn of Eugenia, hitherto his first delight, he now thought served but to render her unsociable and the time she devoted to study, he began to regret as lost to himself; nor could he suggest any possible consolation for his drooping spirits, till it occurred to him that Camilla might again enliven him.”
“It doesn't "enliven" the literary debate, it only debases it.”
“New harvests rife to glad th 'enliven'd (_g_) lawn.”
“Certain yoga poses are aimed to "enliven" specific organs in the body, Kendall explained.”
“It's all part of the Metrotech Business Improvement District's campaign to "enliven" the construction sites, much like the art pieces that fill the abandoned, unused storefronts on Willoughby Street near Duffield and Gold streets”
“One of those ideas was to "enliven" the parks and create ways for the community to come together during the wintertime.”
“The filver flood that in meanders led His glittering ilreams along th 'enliven'd mead;”
Internet Archive: The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
“Additionally, reopening the park will help enliven what can and should be a more pedestrian-friendly intersection than it is now.”
The Huffington Post: Joel Epstein: Bundy and Santa Monica, Tear Down This Fence
“There is no soul to illuminate and no spirit to enliven -- just dead, decadent flesh.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Is Godlessness Dooming Britain?
“There is no soul to illuminate and no spirit to enliven—just dead, decadent flesh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enliven’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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breeze debris
autodidact, hollographic, neurotheology, pensive, grapple, nondual, integral, phantasmagoria, burnished, capacious, ginger, astral and 120 more...
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English
fastidious, flummoxed, fungible, galvanizing, graviats, hafvalla, hyperborean, idiolect, idiomatic, ignominious, immolated, impecunious and 398 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Weekly list(04-10/10/2010)
ongoing, broaden, enhance, intersect, intimate, intrusive, mentor, obligation, reassurance, enliven, involve, reward and 2 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 156
accompany, process, high gear, trip, veritable, float, port, motorboat, hydroplane, on board, exhilarating, caress and 48 more...
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Anglo-Saxon
...or otherwise early Germanic.
storm, scorn, nincompoop, thrice, clave, clove, slain, onslaught, hew, breadth, hussy, pelt and 57 more...
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to nounen and adjectiven
Verbs constructed with the -en suffix.
hearten, gladden, flatten, smarten, blacken, frighten, lighten, brighten, liven, shorten, heighten, fatten and 23 more...
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lynnsawordy's Words
alabaster, plethora, glee, exasperate, enliven, demolish, ridiculous
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Convivium
a inquiry about conviviality
Latin for a banquet or a feast:
a study of liminal space,thresholds,symposiums, ethnos, and the pursuit of the horizon of "we."
convivium, compotatio, concoenatio, compatico, compotica, enliven, convivial, Anacreontic
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