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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"

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.

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

... connected with the discovery of Dr. Jenner which were of a nature to excite repugnance and opposition. The practice of inoculation for the small-pox had already disarmed that disease of many of its terrors. The introduction of a contagious disease from a brute creature into the human system naturally struck the public mind with a sensation of disgust ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... displayed this impassiveness when Europeans were trying to make them exhibit signs of surprise. Impassivity is a point of honour with many uncivilised races, and we cannot infer that a savage has no curiosity because he does not excite himself over a mirror, or when his European visitors try to swagger with their mechanical appliances. Mr. Herbert Spencer founds, on the statements of Mr. Bates already quoted, a notion that "the savage, lacking ability to think and ...

— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang

... eagerly about. The two children trotted at their heels. She talked glowingly. They stood at a low spot at the foot of the garden and she spoke of the necessity of putting in tile. The prospect seemed to excite her. "It will be the best land on the place when it's drained," she said. She stooped and with a trowel turned over the soft black soil. An odor arose. "See! Just see how rich and black it is!" she exclaimed ...

— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson

... the drift-wood on the beach, we made ourselves pleasant little lodges, open to the water, and, after having kindled large fires, to excite the wonder of any straggling savage on the lake shores, lay down, for the first time in a long journey, in perfect security, no one thinking about his arms. The evening was extremely bright and pleasant. But the wind rose during the night, ...

— Christopher Carson • John S. C. Abbott

... is cruelly wrong, and that the field of his oppression ought not to be enlarged. The Democrats deny his manhood; deny, or dwarf to insignificance, the wrong of his bondage; so far as possible crush all sympathy for him, and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him; compliment themselves as Union-savers for doing so; and call the indefinite outspreading of his bondage "a sacred right ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

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