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excite verb (excited, exciting) 1 to make someone feel lively expectation or a pleasant tension and thrill. 2 to arouse (feelings, emotions or sensations, etc). 3 to provoke (eg action). 4 to arouse someone sexually. 5 physics to raise (a nucleus, atom or molecule) from the ground1 state to a higher level. 6 physics to produce electric or magnetic activity in something. excitation noun. excitative or excitatory adj tending to excite.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: from French exciter.
excited adj 1 emotionally or sexually aroused; thrilled. 2 in a state of great activity. 3 physics having energy higher than that of the ground1 state. excitedly adverb.
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