exhilarate

Opium is taken as a medicine, but more generally as a cordial to exhilarate the spirits.

That things always went as badly as she had foreseen did not exhilarate her in the least.

He readily assented to the plan, which, for some reason, appeared to amuse and exhilarate her.

Though he had just heard so much to exhilarate him, he was not, on the whole, free from melancholy.

What you ‘feel’ must be our atmosphere–its rarity, its power to exhilarate.

Tiffles had got through his thinking, and was exhilarate again.

Yet his immunity did not appear to exhilarate the diplomatist.

Wine could only exhilarate for a moment, to be succeeded by a gnawing nausea.

On the other hand, the unexpected discovery of a vein of gold on one's farm will exhilarate the mind and banish a hundred fears.

You may imagine, then, it tended much more to depress than exhilarate my spirits.