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verb (used with object), -cit·ed, -cit·ing.

to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: to excite a person to anger; actions that excited his father's wrath.

to arouse or stir up (emotions or feelings): to excite jealousy or hatred.

to cause; awaken: to excite interest or curiosity.

to stir to action; provoke or stir up: to excite a dog by baiting him.

Physiology. to stimulate: to excite a nerve.

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Electricity. to supply with electricity for producing electric activity or a magnetic field: to excite a dynamo.

Physics. to raise (an atom, molecule, etc.) to an excited state.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin excitāre, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + citāre, frequentative of ciēre to set in motion

Related forms

pre·ex·cite, verb (used with object), -cit·ed, -cit·ing.

Synonyms
1. stir, awaken, stimulate, animate, kindle, inflame. 2. evoke. 4. disturb, agitate, ruffle.

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Cal, says that much excite ment was created there this evening by the arrival of a wagon containing two.

We anticipate a career in a field that will excite us for decades.

Fluorescent lights use electricity to excite mercury vapour.

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Cal, says that much excite ment was created there this evening by the arrival of a wagon containing two.

We anticipate a career in a field that will excite us for decades.

Fluorescent lights use electricity to excite mercury vapour.

Few events in the natural world excite people more than the fall migration of the monarch butterfly.

Those charged particles can excite atoms in the ionosphere, which emit light as they return to their unexcited state.

The twist, which will excite anyone who has ever painted real pictures with real paint, is that.

The recent poisoning case continues to excite much attention in this city.

He does not excite much of the wider electorate either.

He is a great dog in general, but he tends to over excite one of my shepherds to the point of aggresion.

Scientists knew that low water levels excite a group of cells called osmosensory.

They also excite the body's pain receptors and dilate blood vessels.

But there was enough of a red-meat frenzy to excite a fiercely appreciative audience of aficionados.

Atop the rostrum he would impugn his enemies, excite crowds to action and deflect his detractors' barbs.

Incoming photons excite the atoms in the material, and make them spit out more identical photons.

He did not at any one time take enough money to excite suspicion.

Even the best pieces sometimes fail to excite a saleroom.

Once he was in custody, however, he was not nearly glamorous enough to excite journalists for long.

Each party lacks a candidate with the ability to unite and excite its diverse factions.

Rotors excite the mixture, and the metals literally froth out of the troughs attached to air bubbles.

Activated wirelessly with a handheld device, it uses electric current to directly excite the nerves that cause orgasm.

It sufficed to excite considerable attention among.

The point is that predisposing oneself to commit an offense should not excite police attention.

What the book did do was excite a lot of young people.

If you can excite more students, you can have more students be successful''.

Confronting that rabble will only excite them even more.

Powerful lasers mounted on the telescope excite sodium atoms in the upper.

The colors, magenta and white, excite the gourmet in me.

The excitement of strolling the aisles of a cool record store will always excite me.

It is enough to excite the sympathy of all the liquor-dealers in the world.

So, you can't excite anyone in the audience unless you're excited writing the script.

If content owners try to restrict access, they'll fail to excite much interest.

Something else in the sponge is being excited to generate the heat when there is no water to excite.

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World English Dictionary

excite (ɪkˈsaɪt)

—vb
1.	to arouse (a person) to strong feeling, esp to pleasurable anticipation or nervous agitation
2.	to arouse or elicit (an emotion, response, etc); evoke: her answers excited curiosity
3.	to cause or bring about; stir up: to excite a rebellion
4.	to arouse sexually
5.	physiol to cause a response in or increase the activity of (an organ, tissue, or part); stimulate
6.	to raise (an atom, molecule, electron, nucleus, etc) from the ground state to a higher energy level
7.	to supply electricity to (the coils of a generator or motor) in order to create a magnetic field
8.	to supply a signal to a stage of an active electronic circuit

[C14: from Latin excitāre, from exciēre to stimulate, from ciēre to set in motion, rouse]

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excite

mid-14c., "to move, instigate," from L. excitare "rouse, produce," freq. of exciere "call forth, instigate," from ex- "out" + ciere "set in motion, call" (see cite). Main modern sense of "emotionally agitate" is first attested 1821.

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