exhilarate
verb🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪt/
🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exhilarate | 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪt/ 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪt/ |
| he / she / it exhilarates | 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪts/ 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪts/ |
| past simple exhilarated | 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle exhilarated | 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form exhilarating | 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪɡˈzɪləreɪtɪŋ/ |
- exhilarate somebody
to make somebody feel very happy and excited 使高兴；使兴奋；使激动 Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin exhilarat- ‘made cheerful’, from the verb exhilarare, from ex- (expressing inducement of a state) + hilaris ‘cheerful’.