enliven

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Since then, his business, called Enliven, has expanded to include a van, three employees, a 4,000-square-foot warehouse and annual revenue in the mid-six figures.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Enliven it, if you choose, with dashes of crimson, green, or even blue and gold, but use these bright colors carefully.

From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)

Ah well, the things we valued once Enliven us no more!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 by Various

Ten thousand fairies clad in green Enliven the sequestered scene, With noiseless dance and mirth, And minstrelsy of heaven conspires With liquid laughs and wind-played lyres To charm the scenes of earth.

From Our Profession and Other Poems by Barhite, Jared

Enliven, en-līv′n, v.t. to put life into: to excite or make active: to make sprightly or cheerful: to animate.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various