exhilarate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
exhilarate (exhilarates, present participle exhilarating; past and past participle exhilarated)
- (transitive) To cheer#Verb|cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
- Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Musicke a Remedy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition 2, section 2, member 6, subsection 3, page 276:
- Any and ſundry are the meanes, which Philoſophers and Phyſicians haue preſcribed to exhilarate a ſorrowfull heart, to diuert thoſe fixed and intent cares and meditations, which in this malady ſo much offend; but in my judgement none ſo preſent, none ſo powerfull, none ſo [a]ppoſite as a cup of ſtrong drinke, mirth, muſicke, and merry company.
- (transitive) To excite, to thrill#Verb|thrill.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 12.
- Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 12.
- German: beglücken, beschwingen
- German: erregen, berauschen
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