delight
/dəˈlaɪt/ verb B2- To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. · A beautiful landscape delights the eye.
- To have or take great pleasure.
He/she/it delights · Past delighted · Past participle delighted · -ing form delighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- delight
- He/she/it
- delights
- Past
- delighted
- Past participle
- delighted
- -ing form
- delighting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Reynolds anticipated Miss Darcy’s delight, when she should enter the room.
Morrel appeared and was saluted with an enthusiastic burst of applause from the crew of the Pharaon, who hailed the visit of the shipowner as a sure indication that the man whose wedding feast he thus delighted to honor would ere long be first in command of the ship; and as Dantès was universally beloved on board his vessel, the sailors put no restraint on their tumultuous joy at finding that the opinion and choice of their superiors so exactly coincided with their own.
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
“If the marquise will deign to repeat the words I but imperfectly caught, I shall be delighted to answer,” said M.
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