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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enthuse
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "It's an opportunity learn from the best," enthused Rossi.
▪ "You should have seen the match. It was so exciting," Gerry enthused.
▪ Does your spouse still stimulate and enthuse you?
▪ She was enthusing over my English essay, which I didn't think was very good.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A good retailer will enthuse about his stock and tempt you to try new foods.
▪ For a bishop to enthuse about such an initiative is, sadly, rare.
▪ He chatted on about the landscape, enthusing at the sights that Ruth had already seen.
▪ He was also nonplussed that so few real horticulturists were enthused over his resurrection idea for McDowell Mountain Park.
▪ I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively.
▪ Neither of them was enthused about this prospect.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enthuse

Enthuse \En*thuse"\, v. t. & i. To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enthuse

1827, American English, back-formation from enthusiasm. Originally often humorous or with affected ignorance. Related: enthused; enthusing.

Wiktionary
enthuse

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to show enthusiasm 2 (context proscribed English) to cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm or to be enthusiastic

WordNet
enthuse
  1. v. cause to feel enthusiasm

  2. utter with enthusiasm

Usage examples of "enthuse".

The houselights came up and Hawkins idly observed that the crowd was highly enthused about the hit musical.

THERE was reason for Prentiss Petersham to enthuse over a visit from Lamont Cranston.

He pumped her arm as if he expected her to spout water out of her mouth, and all the while he enthused about thoroughbred racing.

Old warriors in the cause of humanity, whose deeds have enthused thousands of followers throughout the world, and whose life and work have inspired other thousands with noble idealism and self-sacrifice.

I think if we can get him enthused enough about some project, his non-rational periods will decrease, maybe stop altogether.

Sanner enthused as he led them through gathering curtains of pale, clammy mist.

She was feeling more enthused than she had since she d learned she was losing her loft.

Wildly enthused, the hunter-lords broke into unprogrammed shouting as they burst from the undergrowth to slay the unfortunate Earl, whose new silk doublet was actually slashed by a few of the spears.

Only we four gathered, and there we pursued the Skill with an avidity that frightened me and enthused the rest of them.

Geraldine was in there talking and enthusing and broadening the circle.

During the free silver campaign, ex-Burgess McLuckie, one of the most genuine personalities in the Homestead strike, visited New York in an endeavor to enthuse the local radicals for free silver.

He never enthused about anything, and he listened with that funny look on his face while I rhapsodised about the Elgar violin concerto.

His pride in himself, his sincere admiration of himself, his joy in what he supposed were his own and unassisted achievements, and his exultation over the praise and applause which they evoked--these have exalted him, enthused him, ambitioned him to higher and higher flights.

Obviously enthused by the prospect of a quick, hefty commission from the sale of the town's abandoned property.

Gill had taken up with a disc jockey on a local radio station, a man whose enthusing voice Rebus seemed to hear whenever he entered a shop or a filling station, or passed the open window of a tenement block.