(v. t.) To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.
(v. t.) To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.
Example Sentences:
(1) Condon has said his film hopes to "explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked."
(2) Finally, Creative Partnerships, which had been linking 2,500 schools a year with creative professionals to enliven the curriculum for pupils, was quietly wound up in July after its funding was axed.
(3) A comparative study of two groups of patients with sluggish psychopathy-like schizophrenia complicated (n = 125) and uncomplicated (n = 85) by alcoholism has shown that alcoholism somewhat enlivens affectivity and reduces autistic manifestations, increasing, however, the progressive nature of the schizophrenic process and leading to the formation of a deeper defect.
(4) Maybe he can enliven what has become a slightly dull second half after a decent start.
(5) This includes three major categories of experience: (a) opening intent--allowing oneself to focus on getting the universal life energy moving again; (b) opening sensitivity--assessing the quality of its flow; and (c) opening communication--participating in a healing relationship that unblocks, engages and enlivens its movement.
(6) Technology is now playing a greater role in young peoples’ lives than ever before and the opportunities this provides for new teachers to enliven their lessons and engage with students are incredible.
(7) "A creative experience, enlivening, but also harrowing, soul-destroying.
(8) 2.04am GMT Final thoughts Was a scrappy affair, enlivened during that brief burst of second half goals.
(9) You cannot tell if a person is an immigrant by looking at them; but you can tell a country that has been enriched and enlivened by immigration by looking at it.
(10) Church hall discos and gigs in leisure centres would be routinely enlivened by punch-ups and gang fights.
(11) Dinner parties can be enlivened with the story of the pop star who passed out in my bed, leaving me confused as to what to do next.
(12) OK, so New Moon sags somewhat in the middle (a season-changing montage in which Bella appears to mope in a swivel chair for an entire year has become something of a standing joke) but at least it's enlivened by Michael Sheen not so much chewing as lasciviously licking the quasi-Papal scenery.
(13) Berman describes the "ordeal" this caused to anyone from the area without forgiveness or ambiguity – but he also recalls the New York World's Fair, the Jones and Orchard beaches, innumerable parks, and other spaces that Moses had carved out of industrial wastes, swamps and dumps, places that enlivened his childhood, that spoke of "heroic ideals" like "human adventure, progress, faith in the future".
(14) Staples is collaborating with the veteran comics writer Mark Waid, telling a new origin story for the perpetual teenager, enlivened by some Ferris Bueller-style fourth-wall breaking by Archie, who has just broken up with his high-school sweetheart Betty.
(15) Her pictorial availability seems to some degree predicated on the artist's subtle way of incorporating in his paint strokes the upheavals and new perils that would enliven traditional gender relationships.
(16) If a no confidence vote from the kindly Angels was not bad enough, the conference's morning session was enlivened by a masterclass in political communication from Tony Blair's svengali, Alastair Campbell As You've Never Seen Him.
(17) In ten trials, EEG was concurrently measured from pairs of subjects, one practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the TM-Sidhi technique of "Yogic Flying" (YFg)--said to enliven the proposed field of consciousness--and the other performing a computer task.
(18) The theory is that Keane's know-how assists the back four while the younger Irishman's vim enlivens the midfield.
(19) André Schürrle and David Luiz each struck the woodwork, the latter having been introduced at the interval along with Eden Hazard in a desperate attempt to enliven proceedings.
(20) Such adventurous quaffing is the result of Sydney Craft Beer week , enlivened by tap takeovers, degustations, meet the brewers sessions – even a beery high tea and an animal-themed onesies bike crawl around Newtown.
Invigorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
(2) "This will transform and invigorate the whole nature of Scottish television news while the parallel use of web platforms will engage and involve viewers in a way which has never been ventured on this scale."
(3) David Folkerts-Landau, chief economist with Deutsche Bank, has also said the influx of refugees has “the potential not just to invigorate our economy but to protect prosperity for future generations”.
(4) To the dark immensity of material Nature's indifference we can oppose only the brief light, like a lamp in a cabin, of our consciousness; the invigorating benison of Walden is to make us feel that the contest is equal, and fair.
(5) As a journalist, I confess that watching her is both invigorating and rather intimidating.
(6) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(7) Barack Obama is pinning his hopes on a re-invigorated Iraqi army and moderate Syrian rebels to help defeat militants who are menacing northern Iraq and Syria, as part of a new, detailed strategy to step up American military intervention to confront the movement.
(8) Spurs were invigorated and when Kane curled in a beauty two minutes later, taking aim from a position where most players would not even have thought a shot was on, the ground was in a state of near-euphoria.
(9) The treatment of 488 cases with anorexy in children showed that the curative effect of the group using Chinese medicines based on the differentiation of symptoms and signs by (1) activating the Spleen, (2) invigorating and activating the spleen was significantly higher than the control using concentrated vitamin B complex (P less than 0.001).
(10) At first glance Van Gaal resembled a chef who had been asked to provide a roast dinner, only to find that there was no meat in the fridge, yet United’s manager was invigorated by the challenge of solving the tactical puzzle and Watford struggled to come to terms with the visitors’ fluid formation at first.
(11) Before she appeared on stage alongside her father, speakers warmed up the crowd with the invigorating soul classic Midnight Train to Georgia.
(12) This study investigated, with microelectrode technic, the effects of electrical activities in pacemaker cells of sinoatrial node by Qixue injection consisting of Ginseng, Astragali and Angelicae sinensis, which may replenish the Qi and invigorate the circulation of blood.
(13) Following recent advances in molecular and cell biology, development of hepatocyte transplantation has been considerably invigorated.
(14) "The effects of inbreeding may not be as noticeable in the first generation as the invigoration immediately apparent after crossing".
(15) Smethers is hoping to tap into the new energy of an invigorated women’s movement, which has seen the emergence of online campaigns such as the Everyday Sexism project, and No More Page 3 .
(16) Such action invigorates reflection, and vice versa.
(17) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
(18) Hopefully the Chancellor is invigorated following her trip yesterday to a beer tent in Abensberg, Bavaria.... More liquidity needed.
(19) White announced his role on the Record Store Day website , saying he would be "proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves."
(20) It started in the community but it has invigorated the women’s movement and brought coalitions together with a real impact in every direction.” We’ll find out which direction today.