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liven up

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Verb1.liven up - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
energize, perk up, energise, stimulate, arouse, brace - cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
ginger up, jazz up, juice up, pep up - make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"
inspirit, spirit, spirit up - infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"

liven up
verb
1. stir, brighten, hot up (informal), cheer up, perk up, buck up (informal) He livened up after midnight, relaxing a little.
2. cheer up, animate, rouse, enliven, perk up, brighten up, pep up, buck up (informal), put life into, vitalize, vivify How could we decorate the room to liven it up?
Translations
liven up
vt sepbeleben, Leben bringen in (+acc) (inf)
viin Schwung kommen; (person)aufleben
liven up [ˌlaɪvnˈʌp]
1. vt + adv (room) → ravvivare; (discussion, evening) → animare
2. vi + advanimarsi

liven up [ˌlaɪvnˈʌp]
1. vt + adv (room) → ravvivare; (discussion, evening) → animare
2. vi + advanimarsi


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Featuring eight bonus stickers to liven up anyone's cubicle, Try Rebooting Yourself is cartoonist Scott Adams' latest compilation of Dilbert cartoons, which savagely mock and jeer corporate ineffectualness, human obnoxiousness, and the literally cutthroat (or shove-off-a-roof) competition of office politics.
Featuring eight bonus stickers to liven up anyone's cubicle, Try Rebooting Yourself is cartoonist Scott Adams' latest compilation of Dilbert cartoons, which savagely mock and jeer corporate ineffectualness, human obnoxiousness, and the literally cutthroat (or shove-off-a-roof) competition of office politics.
Matters finally liven up, if you can call it that, in the third act.
 
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