Overview of verb excite

The verb excite has 8 senses

• excite -- (arouse or elicit a feeling)


• stimulate, excite -- (act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates")


• stimulate, excite, stir -- (stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions")


• agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up -- (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")


• arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up -- (stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience")


• stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir -- (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country")


• excite, energize, energise -- (raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms")


• excite -- (produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons")

Overview of adj excited

The adj excited has 4 senses

• aroused, emotional, excited, worked up -- ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise")


• excited -- (in an aroused state)


• delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained -- (marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure")


• activated, excited -- ((of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive)