Excite
[ɪk'saɪt;ek-] or [ɪk'saɪt]
Definition
(verb.) produce a magnetic field in; 'excite the neurons'.
(verb.) raise to a higher energy level; 'excite the atoms'.
(verb.) arouse or elicit a feeling.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
(v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Arouse, rouse, awaken, stimulate, incite, animate, kindle, inflame, brew, stir up.[2]. Raise, create, give rise to, put in motion.[3]. Disturb, agitate, discompose, irritate, provoke.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:[See ALLAY]
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Definition
v.t. to call into activity: to stir up: to rouse: to irritate.—ns. Excītabil′ity Excīt′ableness.—adj. Excīt′able capable of being excited easily excited.—ns. Excitant (ek′sit-ant or ek-sīt′ant) that which excites or rouses the vital activity of the body: a stimulant; Excitā′tion act of exciting: means of excitement: state of excitement.—adjs. Excīt′ātive Excīt′ātory tending to excite.—p.adj. Excīt′ed agitated.—ns. Excite′ment agitation: that which excites; Excīt′er.—p.adj. Excīt′ing tending to excite.—adj. Excī′to-mō′tor exhibiting muscular contraction.
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Examples
- These inventors conceived and put in practice the great idea of employing the current from an electro-magnetic machine to excite its own electric magnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Yet not to excite fresh agitation in her, per non turbar quel bel viso sereno, I curbed my delight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet I dreaded to witness the anguish which my resolve might excite in Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She saw this, and yet determined to win his love; the obstacle served the rather to excite her ambition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the brass wind instruments such as horn, trombone, and trumpet, the lips of the player vibrate and excite the air within. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Come,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'these are not the characteristics of young Oliver Twist; so he needn't excite your wrath. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If the question concerned an outfit for Borrioboola, Ma would know all about it and would be quite excited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Did no suspicion, excited by my own knowledge of Anne Catherick's resemblance to her, cross my mind, when her face was first revealed to me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When Mrs. Sykes is afraid of the house being attacked and broke open--as she is every night--I get quite excited. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But gradually the sense of complete subjugation came over her, and she wondered languidly what had made her feel so uneasy and excited. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Well, well, he excites my curiosity, and I must really know before I leave him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And therefore, I said, as we might expect, there is nothing here which invites or excites intelligence. Plato. The Republic.
- By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This excites the passion, connected with it; and that passion, when excited, turns our view to another idea, which is that of self. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This happens, among other cases, whenever any object excites contrary passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He is the most intimate friend of Laura's husband, and in that capacity he excites my strongest intereSt. Neither Laura nor I have ever seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- An exciting time it is when that turn comes round. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was undeniably exciting to meet a lady who found the van der Luydens' Duke dull, and dared to utter the opinion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- My next proceeding was to gain as much additional evidence as I could procure from other people without exciting suspicion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Or how could she postpone the journey without exciting suspicion? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Such an elaborately developed, perplexing, exciting dream was certainly never dreamed by a girl in Eustacia's situation before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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