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Excite

verb

(past & past part. excited; pres. part. exciting)

Arouse or elicit a feeling.

Act as a stimulant. Synonym: stimulate. "This play stimulates" Antonym: stifle.

Stir feelings in. Synonyms: stimulate, stir. "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on. Antonym: calm.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up.

Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir. "The civil war shook the country"

Raise to a higher energy level. Synonyms: energise, energize.

Produce a magnetic field in.

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"Excite" Quotes from Famous Books

... there, Tommy?" asked she, half relenting, and yet half wishing to excite his fears ...

— Our Young Folks--Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 - An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... one of those odd little affairs one sometimes sees built in houses, perhaps simply to excite curiosity and make one wonder why they were ever built at all, for they do not seem to be of the slightest use. The one in question was situated high up in the closet, and had probably been put there for ventilating purposes, if anyone ever felt inclined to get a step-ladder ...

— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... Abbotsford, which I do not nourish the least hope of preserving. It has been my Delilah, and so I have often termed it; and now the recollection of the extensive woods I planted, and the walks I have formed, from which strangers must derive both the pleasure and profit, will excite feelings likely to sober my gayest moments. I have half resolved never to see the place again. How could I tread my hall with such a diminished crest? How live a poor indebted man where I was once ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... closed, and the light of a lantern flashed to the ceiling. Wondering that such a place should excite the cupidity of housebreakers, yet convinced that such the intruders were, Alec moved gently into the embrasure of one of the windows, against the corner of which abutted a screen of book-shelves. A certain light ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... met their ardent gaze was not calculated to excite excessive admiration. There were only a few masses of low ice floating about in various directions. The wind was steady, but light, and seemed as if it would speedily fall altogether. Gradually the blink on the horizon (as the light haze always distinguishable ...

— The World of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

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