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• v  fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
• s  making lively and joyful

• What a boor! His lack of success in trying to discombobulate our able President to me was elating.
• After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime fish peddler's Maxwell Street friends, many of whom had .

• elate
• lift up
• uplift
• pick up
• intoxicate
• exhilarating

• depress

News & Articles

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• 2013 NBA Free Agents Facing Career-Defining Offseason
  With an NBA champion crowned for 2013, everyone not elating in the Miami Heat's repeat can now turn their attention to the offseason.  There is a lot to offer in the free-agent market running the gamut from superstars to sixth men and from blossoming veterans to competing teammates. Those searching for somewhat of a bargain can find help in the backcourt (J.J. Redick, Nate Robinson, Marco ...
  June 22, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Andre Dawson in Boston Globe
  The experience of participating at the World Cup itself is elating. To have the entire world focusing on us for four weeks was a dream come true. No one knows when the next World Cup will be held in Africa again, so I definitely don't want to miss... Emmanuel Adebayor http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Adebayor&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHLOA6T8KEu-vYGVuMffApfj9CQ5Q Independent Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php%3Fset_id%3D6%26click_id%3D2871%26art_id%3Dvn20080516065811544C187381&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEARR9YdA-lj9COHHbwZloWVvMhEw May 16, 2008 32045 41230 elation I can't really describe the elation," Dawson said. "If you're a Hall of Famer, eventually you're going to get in, no matter how long it takes."