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Enliven synonyms
ĕn-lī'vən
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cheer
To urge on or encourage by cheers
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  1. To urge on or encourage by cheers
  2. To greet or applaud with cheers
  3. To shout cheers.
vivify
To make more lively, active, striking, etc.
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  1. To make more lively, active, striking, etc.
  2. To give life to; animate
  3. To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven:
quicken
To begin to show signs of life, as a fetus in the womb
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  1. To begin to show signs of life, as a fetus in the womb
  2. To excite and stimulate; stir:
  3. To reach the stage of pregnancy when the fetus can be felt to move.
animate
To stimulate to action or creative effort; inspire
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  1. To stimulate to action or creative effort; inspire
  2. To give life to; fill with life:
  3. To give motion to; put into action
brighten
To make or become bright or brighter
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  1. To make or become bright or brighter
light
To provide, cover, or fill with light; illuminate:
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  1. To provide, cover, or fill with light; illuminate:
  2. Electromagnetic energy of a wavelength just outside the range the human eye can detect, such as infrared light and ultraviolet light.
  3. In a light manner; lightly.
Find another word for enliven. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for enliven, like: cheer, liven up, vivify, quicken, animate, excite, animate, brighten, light and happy.

Sentence Examples

  • The guests welcomed Pierre because he always helped to enliven and unite any company he was in.

  • Many species of humming-birds are found even far up in the mountains, and great numbers of parrots, araras and toucans, beautiful of feather but harsh of voice, enliven the forests of the lowlands.

  • In the time of Bach such writing was beautifully suited to enliven the dry glitter of the harpsichord, and Bach's duets for clavier and violin seem to have been sometimes played as trios with a violoncello playing from the clavier bass.

  • There was at that time before the court a plea for his divorce from his wife, but she now devoted herself to enliven his captivity at the cost of her own liberty.

  • To appreciate them we must take them for what they are, pieces of declamation, intended either to enliven the course of the narrative, to place vividly before the reader the feelings and aims of the chief actors, or more frequently still to enforce some lesson which the author himself has at heart.

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