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 |
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[ verb ] act as a stimulant
Synonyms 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 . Related terms stifle affect innervate irritate quicken nitrify stimulation excitation |
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[ verb ] stir feelings in
Examples "stimulate my appetite" "excite the audience" "stir emotions" Related terms sensitize thrill disgust whet fellate masturbate work horripilate masturbate stimulation stir |
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[ verb ] (physics) produce a magnetic field in
Examples "excite the neurons" Related terms |
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