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Exhilarate

Exhilarate \Ex*hil"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhilarated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exilarating.] [L. exhilaratus, p. p. of exhilarare to gladden; ex out + hilarare to make merry, hilaris merry, cheerful. See Hilarious.] To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

Exhilarate

Exhilarate \Ex*hil"a*rate\, v. i. To become joyous. [R.]
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exhilarate

1530s, from Latin exhilaratus "cheerful, merry," past participle of exhilarare "gladden, cheer," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + hilarare "make cheerful," from hilarus "cheerful" (see hilarity). Related: Exhilarated; exhilarating.

Wiktionary
exhilarate

vb. 1 (context archaic English) To make happy, cheer up; to gladden. 2 To thrill refreshingly. 3 To bring new life to.

WordNet
exhilarate

v. fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify]

Usage examples of "exhilarate".

Ascending current of Eros, the moral freedom Kant offered was absolutely exhilarating to the entire era.

Many nights I dreamt about doing multiple pirouettes and the feeling was incredibly exhilarating.

Indeed, one may doubt if such a thing as happiness is possible without steadily changing conditions involving continually enlarging and exhilarating opportunities.

Eirran expected, Lisper was exhilarated and bubbling with excitement and pleasure.

Entirely aside from his thoughts of self-preservation, Lok was exhilarated by the scene: the sleek tan body rippling with taut muscles, the wide grassy theater of action, and the excited yaps of an approaching troupe of dead eaters gathering at a distance to dispose of the loser.

She was feeling the exhilarating lift of the liquor when she joined Rei for the evening meal.

En revanche, nothing can be more healthy or exhilarating than the air of the tall plateau to the south of the cove.

And yet I find myself - exhilarated - by their speediness, touched by the valiance of their striving.

He and his best friend, exhilarated by a Wolfbane summer storm that went crashing and booming off toward the mountains, had stood on the edge of the Big Eel River and watched its swollen muddy power go hissing smoothly past where they stood on a high concrete embankment.

She laughed with him, and they walked along the L bestridden avenue, exhilarated by their escape from murder and suicide in that cellar, toward the nearest cross town track, which they meant to take home to their hotel.

And even later, after an exhilarating spin in the country, he arrived safe and blithesome at his well-appointed rooms in the Hotel Fulton, ready to remove with good soap and pure aqua the stains of mart and road before calling on Miss Bettina Stokes.

And Brat, walking down the street, was shocked to find himself exhilarated.

There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

Once out of harbour, the hydrofoil started to lift, increasing speed, and she gazed out into the morning feeling exhilarated.

Unfortunately, Knightsbridge went out of business - but not without first boosting my expectations through the exhilarating prepublication process.