(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.
Gladden
Definition:
(v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
(v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas about the revival of politics in the Facebook age find almost no echo among Ukippers, while whathe has said in the recent past about the future of the state would not exactly gladden hearts in Jaywick.
(2) It is not easy to see much that gladdens the heart in the story of Ian Watkins, the former rock star who has had his appeal against his 29-year prison sentence for child abuse thrown out .
(3) It was a statement to gladden the heart: "I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer."
(4) Pint from £2.90 Golden Ball A pub to gladden the heart of any Guardian reader, this.
(5) He said then that a negative decision would "gladden [Poland's] enemies".
(6) The Washington consensus, which Ferguson describes in The Ascent of Money as a wishlist "that would have gladdened the heart of a British imperial administrator", looks irretrievably battered - and yet he refuses to blame any erstwhile masters of the universe.
(7) A very bad start, it was not necessary.” Manchester United’s Luke Shaw out for months with double fracture Read more At kick-off the sight of Anthony Martial lining up as the centre-forward for the 19-year-old’s first start gladdened the football romantic.
(8) But the television pictures of grateful pats on the back gladdened Tory hearts.
(9) It cannot be said that the Palace of Westminster has in recent years overburdened the population of Britain with heart-gladdening news.
(10) Brian Gladden, the chief financial officer, said the macroeconomic climate "is clearly impacting our results.
(11) It’s one that will gladden the heart of so many British people who seek his counsel, and who wish they didn’t have to do at a foreigner’s remove: desperate as ever for a new target to have a frothingly weird pop at, he has turned to us.
(12) Nonetheless, the egalitarian heart isn't gladdened.
(13) Coogan, in his Partridge guise, said: “I am both thrilled, humbled, gladdened and excited to be bringing Mid Morning Matters back to Sky Atlantic .
(14) A comparison of the likely loser and winner in the election should gladden the heart of anyone who believes in upward social mobility.
(15) In different ways Keane, Ronaldo, Henry and Touré uplifted their teams and gladdened the hearts of football lovers.
(16) But it does gladden the heart how the constantly evolving Edinburgh fringe keeps defying attempts to control and corporatise it.