exhilarate vs lift up

exhilarate and lift up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exhilarate	No	No	Yes	No
lift up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, lift up is a hypernym of exhilarate; that is, lift up is a word with a broader meaning than exhilarate:

Other hypernyms of exhilarate include elate, intoxicate, pick up, uplift.

exhilarate (verb)	lift up (verb)
fill with sublime emotion	fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
	take and lift upward