"liven" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Shortening of enliven.",
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          "text": "Let's liven up this party!"
        },
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          "ref": "1905, The American Historical Review, the American Historical Association, page 380",
          "text": "Bacon's Rebellion (p. 54) has no political meaning for Mr. Bruce. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois is told to liven the narrative with a fight (p. 36), but the far-reaching result is merely hinted in a manner that means nothing to one who doesn't know. The ideals and purposes of the Jesuits are not mentioned.",
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        {
          "ref": "1930, Bim Sherman, The Century",
          "text": "[…] and he fought for others' banners,\nAnd he dined at others' tables, and he droned in others' hives,\nAnd he livened others' journeys, and he rhymed of others' tourneys,\nAnd he emptied others' flagons, and he flirted others' wives.",
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          "text": "1958: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (translator), The Travels of Marco Polo\nInstead of the picturesque fables* that liven the pages of ‘Sir John Mandeville’ and of many more authentic travellers, he gives us no less picturesque facts, and facts in great abundance."
        },
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          "text": "1979: The American School Board Journal, volume 166, no. 1, January 1979, published by the National School Boards Association, caption to an image in the May 1979 section\nVisiting professionals frequently liven the day at the Elm Creative Arts School."
        },
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          "ref": "1997, David Nevin, 1812",
          "text": "Anacreon […] celebrated wine and love and must have been a rousing fellow. Probably he livened heaven when he arrived.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sarah Garland, The Herb Garden, page 69",
          "text": "[…] to invigorate and liven the spirits.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michael Winter, The Big Why: A Novel",
          "text": "The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck.",
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        "To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively."
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          "roman": "oživjavam se",
          "sense": "to become more lively",
          "word": "оживявам се"
        }
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          "ref": "1647, Henry More, The Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul, Canto III",
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        "(obsolete) plural simple present of live"
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        },
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        },
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      "word": "оживявам се"
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