Exhilarate

Definition: Exhilarate

Exhilarate

Verb

1. Fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink(exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies".

Date "exhilarate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Exhilarate

Synonyms: exalt (v), thrill (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate, raise the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice the heart; delight; (give pleasure).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Exhilarate

English words defined with "exhilarate": exalt, Exilarating ♦ To cheer ship. (references)

Etymologies containing "exhilarate": Exhilarant. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If you are not properly attired, you will not exhilarate my husband. (Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love; writing credit: Helena Kriel; Mira Nair)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Exhilarate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exhilarate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "exhilarate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), gazmoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), ‏نبه (awaken, excite, jog, remind, stimulate, urge, waken, whet), ‏بهج (brighten, delight, entrance, get excited, gladden, inebriate, regale, rejoice, tickle). (various references)

Bulgarian		стимулирам (animate, brace, excite, goad, innervate, irritate, quicken, stimulate, urge), развеселявам (bring around, gladden, jollify, liven, warm), освежавам (freshen, freshen up, invigorate, irrigate, recreate, refresh, renovate, rub up), оживявам (enliven, jazz, liven, quicken, relive, smarten up, touch up, vitalize, vivify, warm, warm up, zip), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift). (various references)

Chinese		兴奋 (Effervesce, Effervesced, Effervescing, Exaltation, Excitatory, Excitement, Exhilarated, Exhilarating, heady, mind-blowing, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, tingle). (various references)

Czech		osvìžit (invigorate, refresh, rejuvenate, renew). (various references)

Farsi		نشاطدادن , روح بخشیدن (Enliven, Invigorate, Quicken), شادمان کردن . (various references)

French		vivifier, être euphorique. (various references)

German		erfrischen (refresh, rejuvenate, to refresh), in hochstimmung ersetzen, freudig erregen (elate), beschwingt machen, beschwingen (elate), berauschen (befuddle, enrapture, fuddle, inebriate, intoxicate, make euphoric, put in a frenzy), beleben (animate, brighten, brighten up, bring to life, buoy up, enliven, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, revive, stimulate, to animate, to enliven, to freshen, to inspirit, to revive, to staminate, variegate, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

Greek		χαροποιώ (cheer, gladden, lift one's spirit, rejoice), φαιδρύνω (cheer, liven), ζωντανεύω (animate, enliven). (various references)

Hebrew		לשמח (amuse, cheer, delight, elate, gladden, rejoice), ל�"ר� ין (gladden, make rejoice). (various references)

Hungarian		felvidít (cheer up, delight, freshen up, gladden, jollify, joy, rejoice, to brighten, to buck sy up, to cheer, to cheer up, to comfort, to elevate, to enlighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to freshen, to gladden, to jolly, to set up), felderít (brighten, explore, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, to brighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to explore, to reconnoiter, to reconnoitre, to retrace, to scour, to scout). (various references)

Italian		esilarare (exhilaration). (various references)

Korean		원기를 돋구십시�". (various references)

Manx		yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exalt, exaltation, exhilaration, go up, heighten, hoist, raise, retract, rise), cur bree ayn (animate, energize, invigorate, pep up, vivify). (various references)

Norwegian		live opp. (various references)

Pig Latin		exhilarateay

Portuguese		expositor (exhibitor, expository, shower), hilarizar, divertir (amuse, amusing, beguile, disport oneself, divert, entertain, jollify, Kittle, recreate, tickle). (various references)

Romanian		înviora (engraft, enliven, fire, freshen, illuminate, invigorate, push, refresh, regenerate, smarten up), înveseli (amuse, cheer, deck, divert, elevate, enliven, gladden, jazz up, joy, liven, rejoice, smooth). (various references)

Russian		оживлять (animate, brighten, enliven, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, reanimate, resuscitate, revitalize, souped, souping, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stimulisati (jog, stimulate), razveseliti (cheer up, gladden, humor, humour, jollify, jolly). (various references)

Spanish		estimular (abet, boost, bring on, encourage, excite, fuel, ginger up, incite, invigorate, jog, liven, liven up, prod, promote, prompt, quicken, rouse, shake up, spur, stimulate, stir, stir up, titillate, to, whip up), vigorizar (fortify, invigorate, revitalize), regocijar (elate, gladden, rejoice, warm), levantar el ánimo de, arrebatar (blow off, carry away, enrapture, grab, panic, snatch, snatch away, take, touch, whip away, whip up, wrest). (various references)

Swedish		pigga upp (buck up, cheer up, enliven, jazz, jazz up, jolly, lighten, liven, pep up, smarten, stimulate), muntra upp (brighten, cheer up), göra upprymd (elate, elevate, inflate). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้เบิกบานใจ (inebriate). (various references)

Turkish		neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, spirit up, vivify), coşturmak (carry away, ecstasize, elate, enthuse, flush, inflame, key up, lend wings to, root for, send, steam up, sweep away, sweep off, transport, warm up, whoop it up), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references)

Ukranian		звеселяти, пожвавлювати (brisk, enliven, point, reactivate, soup, spirit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "exhilarate": exhilarated, exhilarates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Exhilarate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exhilerate, exhilirate, exihlarate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exhilarate" (pronounced igzi"lerā't)
4	-l er ā' t	accelerate, decelerate, tolerate.
3	-er ā' t	adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-l-r-t-x"
	-3 letters: atelier, exalter, haltere, hetaera, hetaira, lathier, leather, trehala.
	-4 letters: aerate, aerial, aether, alexia, althea, atrial, either, elater, exhale, hailer, halite, halter, hartal, healer, heater, hereat, hiatal, lariat, lather, latria, lither, realia, reheat, relate, retail, retial, retile, tailer, thaler.
	-5 letters: aerie, airth, alate, alert, altar, alter, areae, areal, arete, arhat, ariel, artal, artel, atria.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-l-r-t-x"
	+1 letter: exhilarated, exhilarates.
	+2 letters: exhilarative.
	+4 letters: extravehicular, hypercatalexis.
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