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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
- verb. act as a stimulant
"The book stimulated her imagination"
"This play stimulates"
- verb. produce a magnetic field in
"excite the neurons"
- verb. raise to a higher energy level
"excite the atoms"
- verb. stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"
"the civil war shook the country"
- verb. stimulate sexually
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
- verb. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- verb. arouse or elicit a feeling
- verb. stir feelings in
"stimulate my appetite"
"excite the audience"
Synonyms
stimulate, energise, energize, shake, stir, arouse, sex, agitate, charge, commove, rouse
Common word forms
excited, exciter, excites, exciting, excitement
Words from these letters
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