exhilarate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exhilarate | |
| he / she / it exhilarates | |
| past simple exhilarated | |
| past participle exhilarated | |
| -ing form exhilarating |
- 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’.