excite has definitions from the fields of physics,chemistry,sexuality
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[ verb ] arouse or elicit a feeling

Used in print

(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)

But Sojourner was not easily excited or upset and said quite calmly : `` Let 's go and see what it_'s like '' .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

He was really amazed to discover the other guests so excited about these delicate little songs .

Related terms

arouse enthuse excitement

2
[ verb ] act as a stimulant

Synonyms

stimulate

Examples

"The book stimulated her imagination" "This play stimulates"

Used in print

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend_on individual experience and are aroused in man , in_addition , by complex symbols , one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

The contributions were ahead_of what she had got the previous year , and while the money , of_course , was not hers , it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks .

3
[ verb ] stir feelings in

Synonyms

stir stimulate

Examples

"stimulate my appetite" "excite the audience" "stir emotions"

4
[ verb ] (sexuality) stimulate sexually

Examples

"This movie usually arouses the male audience"

Related terms

stimulate tempt turn-on

5
[ verb ] stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

Examples

"These stories shook the community" "the civil war shook the country"

6
[ verb ] cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

Examples

"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

7
[ verb ] (chemistry,physics) raise to a higher energy level

Synonyms

energise energize

Examples

"excite the atoms"

8
[ verb ] (physics) produce a magnetic field in

Examples

"excite the neurons"

Related terms

change excitation

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