ecstasy
IPA: ˈɛkstʌsi
noun
- Intense pleasure.
- A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
- A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
- (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
- (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
- (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible;
- (slang) Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”) [Intense pleasure.]
verb
- (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
- (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
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Examples of "ecstasy" in Sentences
- He embraced the linga in ecstasy.
- The Jhummar is a dance of ecstasy.
- The face was used as an on ecstasy tablets at the time.
- The ecstasy of martyrdom is mimicked by the ecstasy of sex.
- Was it enough to have ecstasy in the blood or in the pocket
- I suppose this is just the agony and the ecstasy of astronomy.
- The camphor is sometimes used to enhance the effect of ecstasy.
- They discussed the agony and the ecstasy of the 1992 General Election.
- Ecstasy is mainly withdrawal from the opinion of the world and the flesh.
- They tended to focus on the terror in the sublime, and the ecstasy found there.
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