excite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭk-sītʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: excites
form: exciting
form: excited
form: excited
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form: glossary
form: excite
form: excite
form: excited
form: excite
form: excitest
form: excited
form: excitedst
form: excites
form: exciteth
form: excited
form: excite
form: excited
form: excite
form: excited
form: excite
form: -
form: exciting
form: excited
Etymology: From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitō (“to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of excieō (“to call out, arouse, excite”), from ex (“out”) + cieō (“to call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.
Senses: examples: text: The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
synonyms: affect
move
touch
antonyms: relax
calm
glosses: To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
examples: text: Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
text: The political reforms excited unrest among the population.
text: Smugglers operating secretly so as not to excite suspicion.
text: [S]he assured them […] that they had better follow her to a place of safety. They were at length excited, by her mere importunance to leave the room, and soon after the house.
ref: 1840, Randolph Roscoe, The Emerald (page 53)
text: [S]eint Poul seith and to the Romayns he hath writen that bi heeringe of swich ringinge men haven the feith perfytliche so that he putte not the ringinge in the scrippe but it exiteth the memorie in what manere men shulden bileeue
ref: [c. 1430, Guillaume de Deguileville, chapter LXXXXIX, in [anonymous], transl., edited by William Aldis Wright, The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode. From the French (Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.7) (in Middle English), London: Printed for the Roxburghe Club; J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […], published 1869, →OCLC, 1st part, folio 39, page 54:
english: [S]aint Paul says and to the Romans he has written that by hearing of such ringing men have the faith perfectly so that he did not put the ringing in the script but it exciteth the memory in what manner men should believe
translation: [S]aint Paul says and to the Romans he has written that by hearing of such ringing men have the faith perfectly so that he did not put the ringing in the script but it exciteth the memory in what manner men should believe
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synonyms: word: instigate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
examples: text: By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
examples: text: to excite a dynamo
glosses: To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
Derived terms: deexcite
excitability
excitable
excitative
exciteful
excitive
exciton
excitosome
excitron
overexcite
photoexcite
preexcite
self-excite
sexcite
superexcite
Related terms: excitement
excitation