verb[with object] (usually as adjective elated)
- I was elated by the euphoria and the celebrations that followed our victory.
- He swung her up, elated beyond words, for he saw this as a small proof that she did really care for him still.
- I was elated when he finally served me a ham and cheese toastie, and would have happily waited half an hour for him to cook it.
- His eye, elate with happiness, was reading eagerly the tearful gaze of Haidee, when suddenly the door opened.
- Elate with joy I rise.
- Example sentences
- It was, as he said elatedly to me at the reception afterwards, ‘freezing’.
- ‘It's a girl,’ the doctor announced elatedly, giving her to the nurses to wipe and clean her off.
- People were tucking in hungrily and chatting elatedly. ‘I'm a bit out of place here’ thought Jessica.
- Example sentences
- I walked the few blocks to the flower shop with a mixture of nervousness and elatedness.
- Write a short story, featuring a character going through something emotional, it can be anything from anger to happiness, from sadness to elatedness.
- There is something very special about our bus, a feeling of elatedness I get when I am inside.
Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin elat- 'raised', from the verb efferre, from ex- 'out, from' + ferre 'to bear'. The verb dates from the late 16th century.
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