(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.
Revive
Definition:
(v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
(v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
(v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
(v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
(v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
(v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Example Sentences:
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
(6) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(7) Fear of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other blood-transmitted diseases has created a revival of autologous transfusion during cardiac surgery.
(8) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(9) The present data further demonstrate that a subpopulation of B cells which were functionally deleted during aging can be revived in vivo with 7m8oGuo.
(10) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
(11) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
(12) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
(13) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
(14) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
(15) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(16) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
(17) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
(18) Ukraine peace process: leaders agree roadmap to revive talks Read more By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine’s politicians seem to stash away in hard cash.
(19) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(20) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.