Definition of excite

verb (v)

• arouse or elicit a feeling (verb.emotion)

  source: wordnet30
• act as a stimulant (verb.change)

  Synonym: stimulate
  Antonym: dampen, stifle
  

  source: wordnet30
• stir feelings in (verb.perception)

  Synonym: stimulate, stir
  

  Example:
  Excite the audience.
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on
  Antonym: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize
  

  source: wordnet30
• stimulate sexually (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: arouse, masturbate, sex, turn on, wind up
  

  source: wordnet30
• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir
  

  source: wordnet30
• raise to a higher energy level (verb.change)

  Synonym: energise, energize
  

  Example:
  Excite the atoms.
  

  source: wordnet30
• produce a magnetic field in (verb.change)

  Example:
  Excite the neurons.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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