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Definitions for Excite

[1] to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: to excite a person to anger; actions that excited his father's wrath.
[2] to arouse or stir up (emotions or feelings): to excite jealousy or hatred.
[3] to cause; awaken: to excite interest or curiosity.
[4] to stir to action; provoke or stir up: to excite a dog by baiting him.
[5] Physiology . to stimulate: to excite a nerve.
[6] Electricity . to supply with electricity for producing electric activity or a magnetic field: to excite a dynamo.
[7] Physics . to raise (an atom, molecule, etc.) to an excited state.
[8] to arouse (a person) to strong feeling, esp to pleasurable anticipation or nervous agitation
[9] to arouse or elicit (an emotion, response, etc); evoke her answers excited curiosity
[10] to cause or bring about; stir up to excite a rebellion
[11] to arouse sexually
[12] physiol to cause a response in or increase the activity of (an organ, tissue, or part); stimulate
[13] to raise (an atom, molecule, electron, nucleus, etc) from the ground state to a higher energy level
[14] to supply electricity to (the coils of a generator or motor) in order to create a magnetic field
[15] to supply a signal to a stage of an active electronic circuit

Words related to Excite

annoy, disturb, thrill, energize, bother, vex, astound, irritate, delight, amaze, anger, agitate, offend, animate, worry, infuriate, move, waken, jolt, elicit

Words nearby Excite

excitant, excitation, excitation wave, excitative, excitatory postsynaptic potential, excite, excited, excited state, excitement, exciter, exciter lamp

Origin of Excite

1300–50; Middle English < Latin excitāre, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + citāre, frequentative of ciēre to set in motion

Other words from Excite

pre·ex·cite , verb (used with object), pre·ex·cit·ed, pre·ex·cit·ing.

Word origin for Excite

C14: from Latin excitāre, from exciēre to stimulate, from ciēre to set in motion, rouse

Synonyms for Excite

agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy, astound, bother, delight, disturb, energize, irritate, offend, thrill, vex, work up, worry, accelerate, arouse, awaken, chafe, discompose, electrify, elicit, evoke, fire, fluster, foment, galvanize, goad, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intensify, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock, move, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start, stimulate, taunt, tease, titillate, waken, warm, whet, feed the fire, stir up, touch off, wake up