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Definition of excited



Overview of verb excite

The verb excite has 8 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (8) excite

(arouse or elicit a feeling)

2. (4) stimulate, excite

(act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates")

3. stimulate, excite, stir

(stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions")

4. agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up

(cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")

5. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up

(stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience")

6. stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir

(stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country")

7. excite, energize, energise

(raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms")

8. excite

(produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons")


Overview of adj excited

The adj excited has 4 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (4) aroused, emotional, excited, worked up

((of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise")

2. (3) excited

(in an aroused state)

3. (2) delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained

(marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure")

4. activated, excited

((of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive)