0 past simple and past participle of enliven
1 to make something more interesting:
Not that the book is merely a dry compilation of statistics : these are set into a narrative of the period, and enlivened with illustrative examples.
His text is enriched and enlivened by a good deal of well-chosen quotation from primary sources.
It was the very skill which enlivened his ethnographic field notes and the four hundred-odd pages of his doctoral thesis.
The book is solidly scholarly, but is enlivened with astute, enlightening, touching, funny and occasionally moving observations.
The style of the narrator is clear, enlivened by occasional colloquialisms and modern parallels.
The detailed discussions and descriptions in all the chapters are enlivened with photographs, diagrams, charts and, especially, cartoons.
Yet despite this progress uncertainty remains about the full political implications of this enlivened social dialogue.
It could have been enlivened by references to the biographies of those who had experience of life at the bottom.
