Crossword clues for liven
liven
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
liven \liven\ v. t. to make lively; -- sometimes used with up; as, to liven up the party with some music.
Syn: enliven, liven up, make lively, invigorate, animate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, colloquial shortening of 17c. enliven, usually with up. Related: Livened; livening.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive and intransitive English) To cause to be more lively.
WordNet
v. make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: deaden]
Usage examples of "liven".
Otuel, Roland, and Olyvere, And of the twelve dussypere, That dieden in the batayle of Runcyvale: Jesu lord, heaven king, To his bliss hem and us both bring, To liven withouten bale!
The caravan came to an abrupt halt on the woodland road, a good fight livening up an overcast summer afternoon.
He was solid and strong, the smell of him mingling with fire smoke in her livening senses.
Looking past the crowd, Glencoe noted that Mance was by the door, near enough to catch any conversation between two livened servants who were standing there.
Nor where it needeth not for to be given, As to possessioners, that may liven, Thanked be God, in wealth and abundance.
Mile High City, taking us into an almost-perfect weekend with just a touch of some late afternoon thundershowers to liven things up.
Otuel, Roland, and Olyvere, And of the twelve dussypere, That dieden in the batayle of Runcyvale: Jesu lord, heaven king, To his bliss hem and us both bring, To liven withouten bale!
At the opposite end of the counter, the bartender was leaning beside a choirlike arrangement of liquor bottles, watching Mingolla and Baylor, and some of the soldiers were watching, too: they looked pleased, as if they had been hoping for a spot of violence to liven things up.
At the opposite end of the counter, the bartender was leaning beside a choirlike arrangement of liquor bottles, watching Mingolla and Baylor, and some of the soldiers were watching, too: They looked pleased, as if they had been hoping for a spot of violence to liven things up.
Still, nothing livens a sluggish news day like one of those razor-toothed leviathans, hanging by its tail in a marina.
As exultation livened some parts of the courtroom, grief subdued others.
Once Jill had been old enough to join in, her presence had livened things up.
His face went slack and vacant, then livened as he put them back on again, as if he were playing with a mask.
Nor where it needeth not for to be given, As to possessioners, that may liven, Thanked be God, in wealth and abundance.
Those wanderings led him to the prostrate red-light district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.