excite
/ɪkˈsaɪt/ verb A2- To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. · The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. · Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.· The political reforms excited unrest among the population.
- To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. · By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in. · to excite a dynamo
Plural excite · He/she/it excites · Past excited · Past participle excited · -ing form exciting
Verb forms
- Base form
- excite
- He/she/it
- excites
- Past
- excited
- Past participle
- excited
- -ing form
- exciting
From the library
“She’d be so excited that she wouldn’t sleep a wink.
“Oh, Marilla, you’d be excited, too, if you were going to meet a little girl you hoped to be your bosom friend and whose mother mightn’t like you,” she said as she hastened to get her hat.
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
She says it’s perfectly splendid and tremendously exciting.
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