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- verb   Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elate .
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Examples
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								But especially mailing them about their articles and how we enjoyed it elates the writer and acts like an inspiration or kind of catalyst to write more and more. 
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								Thinking about the wonderful creature simply elates me, refreshing my beautiful childhood memories. Subhash Ghimire: Will Nepal's Himalayan Yetis Be Ever Found? 2009 
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								Oxytocin mellows, elates, and throws you into a mental fog. Romi Lassally: Too Much Sex = Failed Relationships: What Will They Think of Next? 2008 
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								It soothes and elates, bringing me back to the ... 
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								It soothes and elates, bringing me back to the emotional state of being on a class trip in kindergarten, when every kid lined up at the local ice cream parlor and ordered the same thing: mint chocolate chip in a sugar cone. 
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								As a result, many children play detective to figure out what is going on in our jobs that upsets or elates us. 
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								Cutting taxes still elates anti-tax conservatives, as it did in Reagan's day, but runaway spending by the modern party has outraged small-government conservatives. Archive 2008-01-01 Stephen Retherford 2008 
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								For he whom pleasure makes a coward will quickly lose, if he continues inactive, the delights of ease which he is so unwilling to renounce; and he whose arrogance is stimulated by victory does not see how hollow is the confidence which elates him. The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007 
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								It "elates in detail how American soldiers -- many of whom were poorly trained and equipped -- bore the burden of bad planning and the bad decisions of their senior commanders." 
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								As James Joyce once wrote, "Rapid motion through space elates one." Best Adventure Cars 2006 
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