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n. - An agent that gives or restores life or vigor.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Verb (used with object) : The wit of Mencken enlivened his age. ,Flowers enliven any room
  • His pale blue eyes were fixed in his head, and he chewed steadily at lozenges of peppermint or cinnamon to hide the perfume of the glass of "enlivener" with which his...
  • Different parties of pleasure were talked of: but still the enlivener of every party was not to be in any one of them.
  • It did him no great harm; it might be taken for an enlivener; he was dead on his favourite spot the ensuing round, played postman on it.
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