Excite Excited Make ɪkˈsaɪt Feel Verb Bre Prospect

• 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/criticism/curiosity

excite

1. to make somebody feel very pleased, interested or enthusiastic, especially about something that is going to happen
• See related entries: Happiness
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/happiness/excite_1
• 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/criticism/curiosity
• The news has certainly excited comment (= made people talk about it).
• The European Parliament is not an institution which excites interest in voters.
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
• synonym stimulate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/stimulate

Extra Examples

• He was anxious not to excite renewed speculation.
• The move excited more criticism abroad than at home.
• This story excited some comment.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they excite
• he / she / it excites
• past simple excited
• past participle excited
• -ing form exciting

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.