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Excited   /ɪksˈaɪtəd/  /ɪksˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
Excited

adjective
1.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion.  Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up.  "She was worked up about all the noise"
2.
In an aroused state.
3.
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion.  Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained.  "Something frantic in their gaiety" , "A mad whirl of pleasure"
4.
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.  Synonym: activated.


Excite

verb
(past & past part. excited; pres. part. exciting)
1.
Arouse or elicit a feeling.
2.
Act as a stimulant.  Synonym: stimulate.  "This play stimulates"
3.
Stir feelings in.  Synonyms: stimulate, stir.  "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"
4.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.  Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on.
5.
Stimulate sexually.  Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up.
6.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
7.
Raise to a higher energy level.  Synonyms: energise, energize.
8.
Produce a magnetic field in.



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"Excited" Quotes from Famous Books



... In answer to excited inquiries from on board, he directed that they should stand by with arms, at the same time calling attention to the weather side of the boat, where was observed a great commotion in the water causing a bright, phosphorescent glow, which left no doubt of the unpleasant ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... improved. The result of this activity has been that the main features of the developmental history of all the most important animals are now known and the curiosity as to developmental processes, so greatly excited by the promulgation of the Darwinian theory, has to a ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... It was hanging almost stationary in the northern sky, like a huge yellow gourd. After a while it made off toward the weSt. One day last week three of them passed, all bound presumably for Paris or Antwerp, or even London. That time the people grew a bit excited; but now they take a Zeppelin much as a matter of course, and only wonder mildly where it came from and whither it ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... his eyes on his friend's averted face. The ashes dropped from his cigar, scattering a white trail across the carpet which had excited Mrs. Nimick's envy. ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... not dead, but in great danger. It appears that Weingarten is in great need of money; for a hundred louis d'or, which I promised him, he confided to me that Trenck's enemies had excited the suspicions of the king against him, and declared that Trenck had designs against the life ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach


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