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Exhilarate

//ɪɡˈzɪləɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate. transitive

    "Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker."

  2. 2
    fill with sublime emotion wordnet
  3. 3
    To excite, to thrill. transitive

    "[A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other combustible exhilarate only to burn up, consume, and destroy?"

Etymology

From Latin exhilarō (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), from ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + hilarō (“to cheer, to gladden”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “gracious, kind, propitious”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“comfort, mercy”).

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