What's the difference between exhilarate and exhilaration?

Exhilarate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.
  • (v. i.) To become joyous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
  • (4) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
  • (5) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
  • (6) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
  • (7) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
  • (8) Exhilarating and liberating The next government will also have to cope with Britain's slipping position in the world.
  • (9) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
  • (10) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
  • (11) The contrast between country and city, ancient and modern, was exhilarating, like having the Pennine Way start in London's Richmond Park.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) Walcott seemed determined to make amends for his earlier mistake and Mesut Özil was prominently involved without being at his most exhilarating.
  • (14) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
  • (15) At first it was exhilarating to fire the gun and I was frustrated that my cousins wouldn't let me go out with them to fight.
  • (16) However, the potentially exhilarating and welcome aspect of what Ed Miliband and his core colleagues offer is the prospect of a new social compact, replacing what Stewart Wood at a one nation conference last Thursday called "the exhaustion of the old settlement".
  • (17) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
  • (18) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
  • (19) It fitted with the exhilarating sense that plagues were being visited on us, but only lighthearted ones.
  • (20) "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well," says Ayoade, who co-wrote the screenplay with Avi Korine, Harmony's brother.

Exhilaration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
  • (n.) The state of being enlivened or cheerful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
  • (4) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
  • (5) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
  • (6) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
  • (7) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
  • (8) Exhilarating and liberating The next government will also have to cope with Britain's slipping position in the world.
  • (9) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
  • (10) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
  • (11) The contrast between country and city, ancient and modern, was exhilarating, like having the Pennine Way start in London's Richmond Park.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) Walcott seemed determined to make amends for his earlier mistake and Mesut Özil was prominently involved without being at his most exhilarating.
  • (14) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
  • (15) At first it was exhilarating to fire the gun and I was frustrated that my cousins wouldn't let me go out with them to fight.
  • (16) However, the potentially exhilarating and welcome aspect of what Ed Miliband and his core colleagues offer is the prospect of a new social compact, replacing what Stewart Wood at a one nation conference last Thursday called "the exhaustion of the old settlement".
  • (17) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
  • (18) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
  • (19) It fitted with the exhilarating sense that plagues were being visited on us, but only lighthearted ones.
  • (20) "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well," says Ayoade, who co-wrote the screenplay with Avi Korine, Harmony's brother.