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elate

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e·late  (-lt)
tr.v. e·lat·ed, e·lat·ing, e·lates
To make proud or joyful: Her success elated the family.
adj.
Elated.

[From Latin ltus, past participle of efferre, to bring out, exalt : -, ex-, ex- + ltus, brought; see tel- in Indo-European roots.]

e·lation n.
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Verb1.elateelate - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
stimulate, stir, shake up, excite, shake - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
beatify - make blessedly happy
puff - make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink, exalt, thrill - fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
cast down, deject, depress, dismay, dispirit, demoralise, demoralize, get down - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

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Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to.
The old man and the child passed on through the glad silence, elate with hope and pleasure.
He, standing a little way within the field, was remonstrating angrily with a man of his own class, who stood with his back to the breach and his hands in the pockets of his snuff-colored clothes, contemplating the procession with elate satisfaction.
 
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