Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: exhilarate – expand
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exhilarate (-s, exhilirate), v. [L. ex, out + hilar-is, cheerful.] (webplay: make).
Enliven; excite; thrill; gladden.
exhiliration, n. [see exhilarate, v.]
Joy; passion; imagination.
exigency (exigencies), n. [L. < ex-, out + agěre, to drive.] (webplay: times).
Demand; urgency; requirement; pressing necessity; immediate need.
exile (-s), n. [OFr 'state of banishment'.] (webplay: away, person, place, transport).
Alien; foreigner; stranger; person who is expelled, cut off, driven out, or sent away; one who is forcibly removed from their native land.
exist (-s, -ing), v. [Fr < L. 'stand out, be perceptible'.]
- Be; have essence; be actual; have a real presence without visual evidence.
- Be possible; have presence as a concept.
- Originate; lie within; be present; be located; have potential.
- Endure; continue; stay; persist; remain; [fig.] survive.
- Occur; happen; appear; become evident; come into being.
- Live; have life; have animation.
existence (-s, -'s), n. [see exist, v.]
- Eternity; all creation.
- Lifetime; occurrence; instantiation; [as a count noun].
- Life; mortality; time on earth.
- Purpose; meaningful life; essence of being.
- Being; reality; state of having essence.
exody, n. [Gk 'going out'.]
Departure; ouster; exodus; eviction; dispossession; royal deposition; forced banishment; legal removal from the throne; [fig.] death.
exorbitant, adj. [L. 'to go out of the track'.]
Extravagant; going beyond natural limits.
exorcise (-d), v. [L. < Gk < 'out' + 'oath'.]
Expel; cast out; adjure to depart; remove by conjurations, prayers, or ceremonies.
expand (-ing, -s), v. [L. 'to open, spread'.]
- Grow; open; spread; blossom; [fig.] radiate; cast light; send out rays; lay out in various colors.
- Enlarge; extend; lengthen; draw out; cause to increase in quantity.
- Magnify; amplify; increase the significance of.