exhilarate
verb (used with object)
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Even in one brief century the dawn has come nearer—perhaps a faint whiteness in the east has exhilarated us like wine.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson