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excited

/ɪkˈsaɪ.tɪd/ adjective A1
  1. Having great enthusiasm, passion and energy. · He was very excited about his promotion.
  2. Being in a state of higher energy. · The excited electrons give off light when they drop to a lower energy state.
  3. Having an erection; erect.
  4. Sexually aroused. · When you lick my neck like that, I get really excited, baby!
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The same afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew pedlar, who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a slip-shod elderly woman.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 16 · B2
I could read all that in the dust; and I could read that as he walked he grew more and more excited.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 39 · B2
This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace-loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air à l’Anglaise, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 42 · C1
Villefort’s dusty garb, his costume, which was not of courtly cut, excited the susceptibility of M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 95 · C1

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