Meanings (ES + gloss)
alegrar
To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.
[Y]ea many gods, / Had voices more than all the winds, with power / To exhilarate the spirit, and to soothe, / Through every clime, the heart of human kind. / While this was utteri…
emocionar • entusiasmar • estimular • excitar • exhilarar • tonificar • vivificar
To excite, to thrill.
Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.
[A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other co…