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
▪ As the plane took off, she felt a thrill of excitement.
alight with excitement/pleasure/laughter etc
▪ Jed’s face was alight with excitement.
be beside yourself with anger/excitement/rage etc
▪ Mom and Dad will be beside themselves with worry.
be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc
▪ Your mum’s bursting with pride for you.
childlike delight/wonder/excitement
▪ The sight filled her with childlike excitement.
detect a note of sarcasm/irony/excitement etc
▪ Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your voice?
full of excitement/energy/hope etc
▪ Lucy was a happy child, always full of life.
▪ He was full of praise for the work of the unit.
generate excitement/interest/support etc
▪ The project generated enormous interest.
sense sb’s fear/excitement/reluctance etc
▪ Luke paused and she sensed his reluctance to continue.
vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc
▪ the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ It was filthy work, but full of atavistic excitement and the promise of financial reward.
▪ People think my job's full of excitement.
▪ After my run at Dortmund I was full of excitement and confidence.
▪ It was like a vast playground to me, full of excitement and interest.
▪ You are afraid and full of excitement at thoughts of what you might find.
great
▪ When his letter finally came, Mrs Fairfax announced with great excitement that he was planning a house-party at Thornfield.
▪ The afternoon meeting ended in an atmosphere of great excitement.
▪ There was no great excitement about swimming either.
▪ The people packed up their tepees, food, and equipment in great excitement.
▪ His few short visits to the village caused great excitement.
▪ Guks's return caused great excitement.
▪ Sometimes there were tears, sometimes great excitement at the appointments.
▪ The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement.
high
▪ The new team will find financial markets in a high state of excitement and looking forward to a cut in interest rates.
▪ Instead I was filled with a high, sweet excitement.
▪ Jane was in a state of high excitement.
▪ Do you prefer exercise that has a high level of excitement attached to it? 10.
▪ But for all of this high and anxious excitement, they appeared to fall between unsteady stools.
▪ Preston drove back to the cottage in a state of high nervous excitement but with some serious reservations.
little
▪ Her breath caught as a strange little frisson of excitement slid from her throat to her toes at the thought.
▪ I have to confess to a little thrill of excitement as I pulled out next morning.
▪ Edward put his arm around Sally and little prickles of excitement started deep inside her.
nervous
▪ The amount of nervous excitement, and consequent prostration, exhaustion, and disorder they cause is fearful.
▪ Even an outsider felt it, the nervous excitement that translated into endless, purposeful motion.
▪ There may be marked nervous excitement and prostration.
▪ Preston drove back to the cottage in a state of high nervous excitement but with some serious reservations.
wild
▪ She sprang off the bed and reached the window in a swoop of wild excitement.
▪ The multitudes had come from their camps of long confinement and were wild with excitement.
▪ The crowd was wild with excitement.
▪ The press and public went wild with excitement.
▪ The bickerings were forgotten in the scenes of wild excitement that greeted the Cup in Huddersfield.
■ VERB
add
▪ But a dry day would bring bigger crowds and add to the excitement of the vital third round of the tournament.
▪ For added excitement, the haul roads are left-hand drive.
▪ He says there doesn't have to be, but it adds to the excitement!
▪ My urban surroundings only added to the excitement.
▪ It all adds up to rare excitement about a rare show.
bring
▪ The pursuit of desire brings with it intense excitement and satisfaction when it is reached.
▪ I think I could bring excitement back to the game.
▪ But 1936 brought its political excitements in other ways.
▪ They love having an opponent who brings such excitement and drama to their game.
▪ Most of all I am eagerly awaiting his return to Wimbledon this summer to bring more fun and excitement to the fortnight.
cause
▪ The picture that had caused Mr Brownlow's excitement was taken down from the wall, and was not mentioned again.
▪ What caused excitement were the variables: size and condition of tooth; age and strength of the victim.
▪ The paper did not cause much excitement and Rous turned to other subjects.
▪ Guks's return caused great excitement.
▪ My presence usually causes some excitement.
▪ And so news of a new addition to the facilities at the Sobell wall in Holloway caused much excitement.
▪ The detection of single atoms in this way has caused great excitement because of its application in many areas.
▪ My passport causes excitement and a soldier thumbs through the pages.
contain
▪ Deliberately, she chattered and laughed, not trying to contain her excitement.
▪ Meanwhile, Steve Jobs could hardly contain himself with excitement.
▪ He found names in the catalogue that made him pause with a strange contained excitement.
create
▪ In two minutes we had created the excitement, fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon.
▪ A central thrust of management will be to create excitement about the future of the company and about belonging to the company.
▪ The event had created great excitement at all levels of society and was eagerly anticipated.
▪ Alec learned later that Durkin had created panic and excitement driving through the towns and villages of Roscommon and east Mayo.
experience
▪ I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time.
▪ Within the hall, simulators allow visitors to experience the excitement of a bobsled run or ski jump.
▪ Suddenly, I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement.
feel
▪ She felt heady with excitement, and her skin tingled.
▪ An average student, he felt the pull and excitement of the Army, so he left college to enlist in 1942.
▪ I can already feel the old excitement coming back.
▪ But despite the general quiet of the anchorage, one felt the excitement permeating the entire fleet.
▪ Callaghan felt his pent-up excitement go flat.
▪ If it had been alive, it would have felt excitement, but such an emotion was wholly beyond its powers.
▪ And, though she did not want to, again she felt a shiver of excitement.
▪ I could feel excitement in my stomach - a rising, tingling rush.
fill
▪ I remember being filled with such excitement I could hardly bear it.
▪ I was filled with excitement at the prospect of making some connection with my ancestors.
flush
▪ His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
▪ The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
generate
▪ These strange and beautiful candlesticks balance motionlessly on their needle-sharp points, generating excitement by the very fragility of their inertia.
▪ The construction, which took a few months, generated increasing excitement.
▪ Instead, it generated excitement and renewed vigour.
▪ It generates a lot of excitement, and is brimming with ideas.
▪ Often a race against time, such programs can generate much excitement.
▪ BThat Pratt continues to generate excitement is understandable.
provide
▪ The controversy which surrounded Robertson's goal attempt for Hearts three minutes from the end provided the only genuine excitement.
▪ Though not yet championship caliber, it at least provides some sense of excitement surrounding the Super Bowl.
▪ A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement.
▪ Speculation on their colourful lives and enormous bank balances have provided much needed excitement in a sea of bland, beige tailoring.
▪ Projects should stretch people, not overload them; projects should provide excitement on the job, not stress and strain.
▪ It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family - people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement.
remember
▪ But I remember the excitement in my children's faces.
▪ I still remember the excitement, pride and even power I felt when my customers paid me for my work.
▪ I well remember the excitement of seeing the very first breeding pair on Yell back in the 1950s.
▪ I can still remember my excitement as I opened the box.
▪ I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn's.
▪ But how many can remember the feverish excitement when it first opened?
▪ I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun.
tremble
▪ Her fingers trembling with excitement, she fastened it around her neck.
▪ When I got there, my daughter greeted me with trembling excitement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flicker of emotion/uncertainty/excitement etc
▪ I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem.
▪ Ruins, she thought, with a flicker of excitement.
▪ Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
a flush of anger/embarrassment/excitement etc
flushed with success/excitement/pleasure etc
▪ His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
▪ She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
▪ The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
hum of excitement/approval etc
rush of anger/excitement/gratitude etc
▪ It was a habit she disliked it made her feel fat-but she remembered a quick rush of gratitude.
▪ It was from Gay, and she felt a rush of gratitude.
spark of interest/excitement/anger etc
▪ But as she looked at him, a tiny spark of anger flared within her.
▪ By the time he was admitted he had lost whatever spark of interest he had felt.
▪ Despite the quiet session, sparks of excitement could still be found in the market.
▪ If he showed a spark of interest in them, Maude would be happy for the day.
▪ The unexplainable spark of excitement, at being in his presence again, shocked her.
tingle with excitement/fear/anticipation etc
▪ I jerked back, tingling with fear, feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast.
▪ I remember walking into the board room tingling with fear and energy.
▪ My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll.
▪ We were tingling with anticipation and at one with our surroundings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gerry found it difficult to sleep after all the excitements of the day.
▪ He missed the excitement of working with so many intelligent people.
▪ If you're looking for excitement, you won't find it here.
▪ In the stands, the crowd was shouting with excitement.
▪ The biggest excitement of the day was when Joe accidentally set off the fire alarm.
▪ There's an atmosphere of tremendous excitement here in the stadium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actually this was done in double-quick time but I can never forget the excitement and the terror of that night.
▪ Ever since the visit she had longed to be part of the artistic excitement of the city.
▪ His excitement and dedication were transparent and touching.
▪ His few short visits to the village caused great excitement.
▪ It was a marvellous sort of excitement, like being young again.
▪ On off days he could sound tired, and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length.
▪ Political institutions are built to deliver power not excitement, and Super Tuesday accomplished exactly what the people who planned it intended.
▪ What caused excitement were the variables: size and condition of tooth; age and strength of the victim.