Excite Make ɪkˈsaɪt Excited Feel Verb Prospect Year

• the prospect of a year in india greatly excited her.
• try not to excite your baby too much before bedtime.
• don't excite yourself (= keep calm).
• to excite attention/curiosity/admiration

excite

Verb Forms

1. to make somebody feel very pleased, interested or enthusiastic, especially about something that is going to happen
• The prospect of a year in India greatly excited her.
2. to make somebody nervous or upset and unable to relax
• Try not to excite your baby too much before bedtime.
• Don't excite yourself (= keep calm).
3. to make somebody feel a particular emotion or react in a particular way
• SYNONYM arouse
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/arouse
• to excite attention/curiosity/admiration
• The news has certainly excited comment (= made people talk about it).
• The advertising campaign failed to excite much interest in consumers.

Extra Examples

• He was anxious not to excite renewed speculation.
• The move excited more criticism abroad than at home.
4. to make somebody feel sexual desire
• SYNONYM arouse
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/arouse
5. to make a part of the body or part of a physical system more active
• The energy of an electron is sufficient to excite the atom.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘incite someone to do something’): from Old French exciter or Latin excitare, frequentative of exciere ‘call out or forth’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.