Dictionary Entry
excite
excite is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
- 3verb
act as a stimulant
"The book stimulated her imagination"
"This play stimulates"
Synonyms
- 4verb
produce a magnetic field in
"excite the neurons"
- 5verb
raise to a higher energy level
"excite the atoms"
- 6verb
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"
"the civil war shook the country"
- 7verb
stimulate sexually
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
- 8verb
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- 9verb
arouse or elicit a feeling
- 10verb
stir feelings in
"stimulate my appetite"
"excite the audience"
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