Exhilarate

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  • transitive verb. To cause to feel happily refreshed and energetic; elate.
  • transitive verb. To invigorate; stimulate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make cheerful, lively, or merry; render glad or joyous; cheer; enliven; gladden.
  • Synonyms To animate, inspirit, elate.
  • To become cheerful or joyous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become joyous.
  • transitive verb. To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make happy, cheer up.
  • verb. To refreshingly thrill.
  • verb. To bring new life to.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fill with sublime emotion
  • Word Usage
    "The west's threats must exhilarate the young bloods of the Revolutionary Guard and depress the opposition."
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    amuse  animate  animate  arouse  beguile  
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