Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic; elate.
- transitive verb To invigorate; stimulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make cheerful, lively, or merry; render glad or joyous; cheer; enliven; gladden.
- Synonyms To animate, inspirit, elate.
- To become cheerful or joyous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become joyous.
- transitive verb To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To make
happy ,cheer up . - verb To
refreshingly thrill . - verb To bring new
life to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fill with sublime emotion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They also still exhilarate him: Of course you get scared.
Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town Marshall Heyman 2011
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The west's threats must exhilarate the young bloods of the Revolutionary Guard and depress the opposition.
Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012
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The west's threats must exhilarate the young bloods of the Revolutionary Guard and depress the opposition.
Simon Jenkins: Why Is Britain Ramping Up Sanctions Against Iran? Simon Jenkins 2012
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Lead actor Andreas Lust (also seen in "Revanche," another chilly Austrian drama in which the moral calculus tallies up a psychological cliffhanger) portrays a kind of instinctual animal — or ascetic sociopath, take your pick — whose disciplined urges exhilarate, then implode.
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The dramatic, satisfying climax and deftly handled resolution of the many plot threads will convince and exhilarate readers.
LIBYRINTH is out! 2009
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Its current show, Kooza, now playing at Randall's Island Park, continues to exhilarate.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Blithe Spirit, Cirque's Kooza, Mary Stuart 2009
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At first these photos seemed to exhilarate her, but soon she grew to hate the Vineland pictures, because she felt that the shots were “out of control.”
Diane Arbus. 2009
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The dramatic, satisfying climax and deftly handled resolution of the many plot threads will convince and exhilarate readers.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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This was not an observation to exhilarate her spirits.
Camilla 2008
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What cookery, masking, mirth to exhilarate his person?
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