Exhilarate vs Excite - What's the difference?
exhilarate | excite |
(archaic) To make happy, cheer up; to gladden.
*, II.2.4:
To thrill refreshingly.
To bring new life to.
To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
As verbs the difference between exhilarate and excite
is that exhilarate is (archaic) to make happy, cheer up; to gladden while excite is to stir the emotions of.exhilarate
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Verb
(en-verb)- Good news exhilarates''' the mind; wine '''exhilarates the drinker.
- Many such tricks are ordinarily put in practice by great men, to exhilarate themselves and others, all which are harmless jests, and have their good uses.
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* * ----excite
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Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
- The political reforms excited unrest among to population.
- There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.