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Synonyms and Antonyms of enlivening
- in most instances it's a good idea to enliven a speech with a joke or two
arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)
activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propelling
charging, electrifying, galvanizing
enkindling, exciting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, inflaming (also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, setting off, sparking, triggering, turning on, whipping (up)
abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, infusing, inspiring, lifting, rallying, steeling, strengthening
reactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing (or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving
burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, harassing, kayoing, knocking out, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, washing out, weakening, wearing, wearing out, wearying
checking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressing
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
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