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UK
/ˈɛkstəsi/
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[ US /ˈɛkstəsi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛkstəsi/ ]
NOUN
- a state of elated bliss
- street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
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a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
How To Use ecstasy In A Sentence
- The Holy Man, with an air of supreme exhaustion and supreme ecstasy, reclad himself in his white mantle, and the faithful ones wiped their brows, and re-squatting on the ground exultantly vociferated _Allah_ about a hundred times, nodding their heads, and finally changing their cry into _Bou! Without Prejudice
- I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a 11)tribal war dance of sheer unashamed 12)ecstasy.
- Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
- Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
- She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy. What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
- Kate closed her eyes in ecstasy at the thought of a cold drink.
- On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain. CHAPTER XII
- Medical writers of the era even discussed a fourth clinical condition, marked by immobility, which they termed ecstasy, but this was not a state that might lead to premature burial. The Serpent and the Rainbow
- She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space. THE ONLY GAME
- What if she was like most 17-year-olds and had experimented with marijuana or speed or ecstasy?