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enlivened

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verb

past tense of enliven

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlivened
Adjective
  • The Foreman fight sealed his vindication with an exhilarated reception throughout the world.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Walking into that pitch-black space, not seeing anything while having my eyes wide open exhilarated and frightened me.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Looking ahead, Netflix plans to continue integrating major studio films into its library, last October expanding its NBCUniversal deal for animated features and adding U.S. rights to live-action titles from both Universal Pictures and Focus Features.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
  • This means that the growing international voting bloc is an Oscar force to be reckoned with for animated feature.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Carrier contends that early Christianity began as a purely visionary movement worshipping a celestial figure, an angelic being who took on human flesh to be crucified by Satan, buried, and reborn in the sky.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The premise, as always with this genre, is in the title: A 52-year-old bureaucrat and father has been hit by a truck (classic) and reborn in another world as the teenage villainess of his daughter’s favorite otome game (typically, romance games aimed at women).
    Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Enlivened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlivened. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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