Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Something that excites ", 10 letters:
excitement

Alternative clues for the word excitement

Word definitions for excitement in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a mood of optimism/despair/excitement etc ▪ There is a new mood of optimism. a pitch of excitement/excellence/perfection etc (= a high level of excitement etc ) ▪ He screamed at her in a pitch of fury. a thrill of excitement/anticipation/pleasure ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused). 2 (context countable English) something that excites.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excitement \Ex*cite"ment\n. [Cf. OF. excitement, escitement.] The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed" [syn: exhilaration ] the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm ...

Usage examples of excitement.

Frequent allusion is made to the excitement at present existing in our national politics, and it is as well that I should also allude to it here.

Old Erkins trembled with excitement as he saw the automaton begin to move.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

Excitement shivering through him, the bardling kicked his mule forward.

Hetherton liked being late at church, and so, notwithstanding that the Colonel had worked himself into a tempest of excitement, had tied and untied her bonnet-strings half a dozen times, changed her rich basquine for a thread lace mantilla, and then, just as the bell from St.

Slowly he raised his hand, twitching with excitement, and stretched it out towards the cheque, but, before his fingers touched it, Lady Bellamy, as though by accident, dropped her white palm upon the precious paper.

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.

The Weeping Genii was in the semi-final match against Battering Ram Bently, and I felt a curious excitement as they got ready for that bout.

There was another pack of Dervish down the road behind them, at least two dozen, brandishing their weapons and hooting with wild excitement as they saw the women.

The excitement of having Brat there had died into acceptance, and they no longer treated him as a newcomer.

Shivering from excitement, fear, the thrill of experience and discovery, she arched her hips, and Brok eased in, more and more.

The rapid change from extreme fear to excessive pleasure brought on an excitement which was like a violent fever.

As the bronze bell rang in clear, high tones, people bustled out to see the excitement.

Daniel, being a far less condescending teacher than Musikmeister Hummel, has succeeded in teaching me a great deal in a short while and I feel, in the making of this music, some of that uncontrollable excitement that afflicted me when I did my wild, splodged painting of my park.

Queen was travelling incognita, and that fact alone robbed her progress of a sense of excitement.