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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
excite
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thrilling/dramatic/exciting climax
▪ In this scene, the play reaches its dramatic climax.
an exciting discovery
▪ The existence of the new solar system was a very exciting discovery.
arouse/provoke/excite controversy (=cause it)
▪ Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion.
be excited/thrilled/delighted etc at the prospect (of sth)
▪ I was excited at the prospect of going to Washington.
exciting possibilities
▪ The city offers many exciting possibilities for young people.
exciting
▪ We were to be her guardians. This was an exciting prospect.
exciting
▪ The match could not have been more exciting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ If those trains represented the top quality of Provincial's empire, there was much less to be excited about elsewhere.
▪ I want kids to have something they can be excited about.
▪ After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
▪ What am I getting excited about?
▪ They were just passing through, so there was nothing to get excited about.
▪ This is about exciting kids through connections to careers.
▪ It was the first time that I got excited about my own ideas.
▪ But he was a joke; he was never anything to get excited about, even in the beginning.
as
▪ Nobody was as excited to see me as I'd expected.
▪ Angry that I have to witness this, as exciting as it seems.
▪ Katherine had been as excited as a child on Christmas morning.
▪ For the Utah delegates the non-session hours are about as exciting as late-night channel clicking between CSPAN2 and CSPAN1.
▪ I was as excited as the rest.
▪ Return to these pages for a shot of inspiration or direction. exciting as stale toast.
▪ This is exciting as long as there is a new team waiting when the old one disbands.
more
▪ Parents are probably more excited about the extension of the Isa to the youth market.
▪ By mid-July, the country will switch its attention away from Washington to the far more exciting games in Atlanta.
▪ The technician was more excited by the resulting effect than I was: I just thought it was a bit of fun.
▪ Patrice was more excited about the occasion than Lettie, mainly because initially, it had all been her idea.
▪ Even more exciting was the discovery of documents in languages never before known or imagined.
▪ She would be even more excited if she knew her basket included a dozen Snickers bars.
▪ I was more excited than I had ever been before.
▪ So why do we remember it as being so much more exciting than it was?
most
▪ And anyway, it wasn't the most exciting life after work.
▪ This is one of the most exciting days of my life.
▪ Most exciting, in some ways, was that individual Singers came to be recognized, after a time.
▪ Love was always the best, the most exciting, and she was the only one I wanted.
▪ In many fields of science the most exciting breakthroughs have come from serendipitous discoveries rather than from official strategies.
▪ This spray is the most exciting because a dramatic transformation usually occurs just before the oven is opened.
▪ At Black Mountain, both teachers and students flocked to the most exciting classes.
really
▪ Of course, when my friends finally find out, they were really excited.
▪ We get really excited when we get a chance to play these guys, good, bad or indifferent.
▪ I was really excited about it but it was certainly not glamorous.
▪ For a young kid, that was something really exciting, man.
▪ Joseph and David were really excited, but Father looked serious.
so
▪ I was so excited that I forgot I was going into a cage with a wild bird.
▪ He was so excited to be here.
▪ Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media, they try to use them all.
▪ I was so excited, I could not concentrate on my homework.
▪ He was so excited he seemed to vibrate with it.
▪ In many cases, applicants are so excited about the job offer that they grab it too quickly.
▪ She was so excited about the job that she never asked what the salary was.
▪ I had thought that Mrs Trowbridge would be so excited for me.
too
▪ I was too excited by the sight of all the beautiful objects that filled the room.
▪ He is too excited by his new idea.
▪ Even the Snotlings will fight as they are far too excited to care what they are doing.
▪ But don't get too excited just yet.
▪ He'd been excited too, dumb shit.
very
▪ I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students, Ian Moss.
▪ He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
▪ The second difference is that reality isn't very exciting, whereas Brookside, at its best, was very exciting indeed.
▪ He responded that he was very excited and knew he was going someplace special.
▪ The second difference is that reality isn't very exciting, whereas Brookside, at its best, was very exciting indeed.
▪ We are very excited, but not at the prospect of watching the movie.
▪ I remember being very excited by his round but he took it all calmly, quietening me down.
▪ The whole consumer and retailing area can be a very exciting area to invest in.
■ NOUN
idea
▪ I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students, Ian Moss.
▪ Some children are fortunate in that their parents or teachers provide an excited audience for their ideas and plot lines.
▪ He is too excited by his new idea.
▪ Some industry research shows that consumers are less excited about the idea than the companies.
▪ I think the most exciting idea is to launch an Earth-Moon solar sail race.
▪ It was the first time that I got excited about my own ideas.
▪ At once, he turned and sprang up the rocky path even faster, suddenly excited by the idea of being alone.
▪ Nothing is more exciting than seeing your ideas work in the marketplace.
interest
▪ He thought of Hugo's ability to excite interest, to stimulate thought.
▪ Hargreaves Quarries is expected to excite the most interest.
▪ The workshops are designed to encourage and excite an interest in the different possibilities of performance.
▪ The art of a good press release is to excite the editor's interest with the first sentence.
▪ Sir Denis Foreman, of Granada Television, excited a little more interest.
opportunity
▪ I was excited by opportunity and overwhelmed by possibilities.
▪ We really see it as an exciting opportunity.
▪ It is not: extinction has happened millions of times before and is an exciting opportunity for science.
possibility
▪ What excites Lévi-Strauss about the possibilities of structuralist analysis is its potential for a formalized analysis of meaning.
▪ Perhaps the most exciting possibility... is the extension of this type of work to other systems besides sensory.
▪ The possibility of a new way of looking opens up exciting possibilities for the re-evaluation of many genres of photography.
prospect
▪ Sustainable development investments represented a variety of exciting prospects, but there were still relatively few practical opportunities for investment.
▪ He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
▪ I was excited about the prospect, but quickly realised that this was not the time to share my jovial mood.
▪ Though excited at the prospect of moving to Washington, she was also nervous.
▪ As the months went by, I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday.
▪ Personally, I was excited at the prospect of participating in a real blood-and-guts battle against a prohibitive odds-on favorite.
▪ I was excited at the prospect of living in Seoul again and writing about my native place full-time.
▪ Another exciting prospect for future power generation is terrestrial fusion power.
■ VERB
become
▪ The gathering mob is becoming wildly over-excited.
▪ At the beginning of the Aqaba crisis he had suddenly become excited.
▪ She went to Oxford, where she became excited about the silent history of ordinary people.
▪ And now the admiral became a trifle excited.
▪ As the months went by, I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday.
▪ Black people all over the South became excited at the thought of this new promised land.
▪ Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media, they try to use them all.
▪ As Pedro and I discussed it, he became very interested and excited about this type of career.
get
▪ Let's face it kids, you ain't likely to get very excited by a badly digitised, flickery screenshot.
▪ If I cut according to my cloth and didn't get excited at around thirty I would find myself miraculously Mister-Righted.
▪ It was the summer work that got me all excited about the law.
▪ Though he got excited at each new development in his investigations, he soon became disillusioned again.
▪ I actually get excited about it.
▪ How can students get excited about learning when they spend much of their time glued passively in their seats?
seem
▪ The only questions that seem to have excited the commentators are: is the recession over?
▪ She seemed as excited as I.. By the next day, the entire school knew because she had told everyone.
▪ Something seemed to have excited them, they'd found something on the foreshore.
▪ Fei Yen seemed flushed, excited by the ride, her eyes wide with enjoyment.
▪ They all seem to be excited about my allatostatin work.
▪ It seemed like an exciting adventure to me.
▪ Everyone here seems excited about it, and I pray fervently it will be loved by its readers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Arthur's enormous wealth excited the envy of his rivals.
▪ Being part of the crowd at a ball game had always excited me.
▪ Don't excite him - he needs his rest.
▪ Recent fossil finds in Africa have excited interest among palaeontologists.
▪ She excites me in a way that no other woman can.
▪ She was at a point in her life where her work didn't really excite her anymore.
▪ Some of those Internet chat rooms can get you pretty excited.
▪ The movie was okay, but it didn't excite me that much.
▪ The murder trial has excited a lot of public interest.
▪ The signal excites the neurons in the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ That's where the Arabs prohibited the import of jasmine because the scent depresses the men and excites the women.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excite

Excite \Ex*cite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excited; p. pr. & vb. n. exciting.] [L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]

  1. 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.

  2. (Physiol.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

  3. (Elec.) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

  4. (Physics) To raise to a higher energy level; -- used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.

    Syn: To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke.

    Usage: To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of C[ae]sar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
excite

mid-14c., "to move, stir up, instigate," from Old French esciter (12c.) or directly from Latin excitare "rouse, call out, summon forth, produce," frequentative of exciere "call forth, instigate," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + ciere "set in motion, call" (see cite). Of feelings, from late 14c. Of bodily organs or tissues, from 1831. Main modern sense of "emotionally agitate" is first attested 1821.

Wiktionary
excite

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To stir the emotions of. 2 (context transitive English) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. 3 (context transitive physics English) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. 4 To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

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WordNet
excite

  1. v. arouse or elicit a feeling

  2. act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates" [syn: stimulate] [ant: stifle]

  3. raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms" [syn: energize, energise]

  4. stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, stir]

  5. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, charge up] [ant: calm]

  6. stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" [syn: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up]

  7. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, stir]

  8. produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons"

Wikipedia
Excite

Excite (stylized as excite) is a collection of web sites and services, launched in December 1995. Excite is an online service offering a variety of content, including an Internet portal showing news and weather etc. (outside United States only), a metasearch engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage. The content is collated from over 100 different sources.

Excite's portal and services are owned by Excite Networks, but in the United States, Excite is a personal portal, called My Excite, which is operated by Mindspark and owned by IAC Search and Media.

In the 1990s, Excite was one of the most recognized brands on the Internet, before its decline in the early 2000s.

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Usage examples of "excite".

Italy, for instance, is full of accumulated wealth, of art, even of ostentation and display, and the new generation probably have lost the power to conceive, if not the skill to execute, the great works which excite our admiration.

They admitted that they concealed the highest truths under the veil of allegory, the more to excite the curiosity of men, and to urge them to investigation.

I cannot refrain from alluding, and which excited deep interest at the time.

Owen speaks of a woman who was greatly excited ten months previously by a prurient curiosity to see what appearance the genitals of her brother presented after he had submitted to amputation of the penis on account of carcinoma.

Everyone else seemed to find their way to the Mammoth Hearth, anticipating the story of an exciting and unusual adventure, which could be told and retold.

Exciting research on new antitoxin therapy will likely reduce this risk much further in the future.

She answered very sensibly all the questions addressed to her by Charles, often exciting his mirth by her artlessness, but not shewing any silliness.

I went straight to the stable yard, but the hounds were all right, although, of course, very restless and excited because they could smell the aniseed, too, so then I thought I had better check on Sekhmet.

The time of Choosing, when the boys of the town and keep were taken into apprenticeship, was close, and Pug became excited as he said, This Midsummers Day I hope to take the Dukes service under Swordmaster Fannon.

Friday night in the Astrodome -- was as wild, glamorous and exciting as an Elks Club picnic on Tuesday in Salina, Kansas.

But the excited Carolinians would not wait, because they feared that the arrival of reinforcements might balk them of their easy prey.

Then she moved gracefully away, leaving me staring at the banyan tree but seeing nothing but the ayah coming to the house, taking over the care of Louise, growing to love the child, being excited at the prospect of another child, and in due course giving the same devotion to Alan.

In fact, a friend of mine in Staten Island had told me that riding bareback is more exciting, more fun, than with a saddle and stirrups.

Antarctic reports were made even more exciting on July 9th, when Mario Jahn Barrera, commander of the Chilean base, radioed that a corporal had taken color pictures of a UFO.

CHAPTER LXVII Public feeling in Marlshire was much excited about the Caresfoot tragedy, and, when it became known that Lady Bellamy had attempted to commit suicide, the excitement was trebled.