(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.
Recreate
Definition:
(v. t.) To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
(v. i.) To take recreation.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(3) Employment problems, amount of pain, and social and recreational difficulties were assessed.
(4) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
(5) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(6) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(7) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recently popularized recreational drug, although some have advocated its psychotherapeutic potential.
(8) Accidents from sports and recreation were the cause in 23% of the cases.
(9) More men than women reported high rates of sports and recreational activities, gardening, and do-it-yourself.
(10) An inverse Fourier transform is then used to recreate the new time domain representation, which has been appropriately filtered for extraneous noise.
(11) Cases were more likely to have worked in the following industries: mining, paper and wood, medicine and science, and entertainment and recreation.
(12) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
(13) Benzene concentrations of 2.5, 14, and 250 ppm should be acceptable for residential, industrial, and recreational soils, respectively.
(14) The present results suggest that, although we observed a larger effect with occupational activity than with recreational activity, middle-aged men may reduce their risk of colorectal cancer if they exercise when they are not working.
(15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(16) Obama may have been deliberately recreating one of Mandela's own most useful gestures in his moment of human contact with the president of Cuba .
(17) Similar applies to the new standards of the TAL 1974 and that recommendations of the "Deutscher Bäderverband" to estimate health resorts, recreation areas and mineral springs.
(18) The embryotoxic levels of these solvents needed in culture were higher than blood levels likely to occur in the human following industrial exposure or recreational abuse.
(19) Relationships between the severity and frequency of low back pain and referred lower extremity pain and other variables such as occupation, recreation, age, sex and predominant working posture was analysed.
(20) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.