1. (

• excite ,

) arouse or elicit a feeling ;

2. (

• stimulate ,
• excite

) act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates" ;

3. (

• stimulate ,
• excite ,
• stir

) stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" ;

4. (

• agitate ,
• rouse ,
• turn_on ,
• charge ,
• commove ,
• excite ,
• charge_up

) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" ;

5. (

• arouse ,
• sex ,
• excite ,
• turn_on ,
• wind_up

) stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" ;

6. (

• stimulate ,
• shake ,
• shake_up ,
• excite ,
• stir ,

) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" ;

7. (

• excite ,
• energize ,
• energise

) raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms" ;

8. (

• excite ,

) produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons" ;

1. (

• aroused ,
• emotional ,
• excited ,
• worked_up

) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise" ;

2. (

• excited

) in an aroused state ;

3. (

• delirious ,
• excited ,
• frantic ,
• mad ,
• unrestrained

) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" ;

4. (

• activated ,
• excited

) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive ;