Cosa (chi) è Exhilarate - definizione

Exhilarate

·vi To become joyous.

II. Exhilarate ·vt 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

v. a.

Cheer, enliven, inspirit, inspire, animate, stimulate, elate, gladden, make merry, make glad or joyous.

exhilarate

[?g'z?l?re?t, ?g-]

¦ verb [often as adjective exhilarated or exhilarating] make very happy or animated.

Derivatives

exhilaratingly adverb

exhilaration noun

Origin

C16: from L. exhilarat-, exhilarare 'make cheerful', from ex- + hilaris 'cheerful'.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per Exhilarate

1. The potential of music to energise and exhilarate a crowd is dangerous to dictatorships, the arousal of emotions being counterproductive to their will to suppress.

2. He did it four times while working through the 10 letters of "exhilarate." "I say a couple of letters into my hand, and then I say them out loud," said Jonathan, who also advanced to the semifinals.