Dictionary entry details
• EXCITE (verb)
Meaning:
Arouse or elicit a feeling
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
enthuse (cause to feel enthusiasm)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Act as a stimulant
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
stimulate; excite
Context examples:
The book stimulated her imagination / This play stimulates
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
invigorate; quicken (give life or energy to)
innervate (stimulate to action)
irritate (excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Raise to a higher energy level
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
energise; energize; excite
Context example:
excite the atoms
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Stir feelings in
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
stir; excite; stimulate
Context examples:
stimulate my appetite / excite the audience / stir emotions
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
sensitise; sensitize (cause to sense; make sensitive)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
quicken; whet (make keen or more acute)
thrill (cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input)
blow; fellate; go down on (provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation)
work (provoke or excite)
horripilate (cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps)
masturbate (stimulate sexually)
fuck off; jack off; jerk off; masturbate; she-bop; wank (get sexual gratification through self-stimulation)
disgust; gross out; repel; revolt (fill with distaste)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
commove; charge up; agitate; rouse; excite; turn on; charge
Context example:
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
electrify (excite suddenly and intensely)
pother (make upset or troubled)
bother (make nervous or agitated)
hype up; psych up (get excited or stimulated)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
The bad news will excite him
The good news will excite her
Meaning:
Stimulate sexually
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
sex; wind up; excite; turn on; arouse
Context example:
This movie usually arouses the male audience
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
tempt (try to seduce)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The performance is likely to excite Sue
Meaning:
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
stimulate; stir; shake up; shake; excite
Context examples:
These stories shook the community / the civil war shook the country
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excite"):
titillate (excite pleasurably or erotically)
animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate (heighten or intensify)
elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)
invite; tempt (give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting)
thrill; tickle; vibrate (feel sudden intense sensation or emotion)
affright; fright; frighten; scare (cause fear in)
arouse; excite; sex; turn on; wind up (stimulate sexually)
fuel (stimulate)
Sentence frames:
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Sentence example:
The performance is likely to excite Sue
Meaning:
Produce a magnetic field in
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
excite the neurons
Hypernyms (to "excite" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
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