verb [VN]
1 to make sb feel very pleased, interested or enthusiastic, especially about sth that is going to happen:
The prospect of a year in India greatly excited her.
2 to make sb nervous or upset and unable to relax:
Don't excite yourself (= keep calm). * Try not to excite your baby too much before bedtime.
3 ~ sth (in sb) to make sb feel a particular emotion or react in a particular way
SYNAROUSE:
The European Parliament is not an institution which excites interest in voters. * to excite attention / criticism / curiosity * The news has certainly excited comment (= made people talk about it).
4 to make sb feel sexual desire
SYNAROUSE
5 (formal) to make a part of the body or part of a physical system more active
SYNSTIMULATE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for excite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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