Likened vs Livened - What's the difference?
likened | livened |
(liken)
To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
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(transitive, and, intransitive) To cause to be more lively.
* 1905 : The American Historical Review , published by the American Historical Association, page 380
* 1930 : Bim Sherman, The Century
* 1958 : Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (translator), The Travels of Marco Polo
* 1979 : The American School Board Journal'', volume 166, ? 1, January 1979, published by the ''National School Boards Association , caption to an image in the May 1979 section
* 1997 : David Nevin, 1812
* 2003 , Sarah Garland, The Herb Garden , page 69
* 2001 , Nick Tosches, Cut Numbers: A Novel
* 2005 : Michael Winter, The Big Why: A Novel
As verbs the difference between likened and livened
is that likened is (liken) while livened is (liven).likened
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(head)liken
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(en verb)Chico Harlan
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Anagrams
* ----livened
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(head)liven
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(en verb)- Let's liven up this party!
- 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.
- ... ''and he fought for others' banners,
- And he dined at others' tables, and he droned in others' hives,
- And he livened others' journeys, and he rhymed of others' tourneys,
- And he emptied others' flagons, and he flirted others' wives.
- Instead 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.
- Visiting professionals frequently liven the day at the Elm Creative Arts School.
- Anacreon'' [...] ''celebrated wine and love and must have been a rousing fellow. Probably he livened heaven when he arrived.
- ... and to invigorate and liven the spirits.
- “It was all those suspendeds since the time before that fucked me.” ''[sic]'' Then he livened , and he actually did manage to smile. “It was Secaucus, ...
- 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.