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elate

[ih-leyt] / ɪˈleɪt /
VERB
inspire
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And if you can hear a song as irresistible as “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” and not feel your soul elate, you may be a stranger to joy.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020

McQueen worked the way a dreaming brain does, transmuting suppressed instinct into images that can trouble, mystify, and elate.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

“One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament,” he added.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010

Neither the pursuit of records nor the fact that he is the most successful driver in the 22-year his tory of organized drag racing seems to elate him.

From Time Magazine Archive

She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck