exhilarate

t. & i. [Lat. exhilaratus, pa. par. of exhilaro.] A. Trans .: To cheer, to gladden, to make cheerful or merry, to enliven, to excite joy or mirth in, to animate. "The force of that fallacious fruit, That with exhilarating vapors bland About their spirits had played, and inmost powers Made err, was now exhaled." Milton: P. L., ix. 1,046-49. IMG:content-1260.png:[blocks in formation] exidia