Definition of "exhilarant" [ex•hil•a•rant]

• Serving to exhilarate; exhilarating. (adjective)
• Something that exhilarates or stimulates. (noun)

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• "But when trying to understand what happened, it is important to remember that filming and photographing the colonel's battered body was not only an exhilarant act of rage."
• "Numerous times he had risked his life in combat, exhilarant the cry of his charge."
• "And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it."