excite
To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
Example
“The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.”
Other meanings
To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
“Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.”
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.”
Related words
- deexcite
- excitability
- excitable
- excitative
- exciteful
- excitive
- exciton
- excitosome
- excitron
- overexcite
- photoexcite
- preexcite
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "excitō" (to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “excite” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.