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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exhilarate /ɪgˈzɪləreɪt, ɛg-/

▶verb (often as adj. exhilarated or exhilarating) make very happy or animated.

– derivatives
exhilaratingly adverb,
exhilaration noun.

– origin C16: from L. exhilarat-, exhilarare ‘make cheerful’, from ex- + hilaris ‘cheerful’.

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