exhilarates

Verb

exhilarate (third-person singular simple present exhilarates, present participle exhilarating, simple past and past participle exhilarated)

1. (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
   • Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.

   Synonyms:

   blissen, enliven, light up, stimulate, animate, arouse, awaken, beghast, leaven, bright

2. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.
   • [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?1856, Joel Pinney, “The Effects of Alcoholic Liquors, and the Customs of Drinking and Inebriety”, in The Duration of Human Life and Its Three Eras: When Men Attained to More than Nine Hundred Years...

   Synonyms:

   electrify, work up, animate, awaken, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exsuscitate