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Excite

Definitions: Excite

Excite

Verb

1. Arouse or elicit a feeling.

2. Act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination".

3. Raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms".

4. Stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience".

5. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks".

6. Stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience".

7. Stir the feelings or emotions of; "These stories shook the community".

8. Produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "excite" was first used: sometime in the mid-14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Excite

Synonyms: agitate (v), arouse (v), charge (v), charge up (v), commove (v), energise (v), energize (v), rouse (v), sex (v), shake (v), shake up (v), stimulate (v), stir (v), turn on (v), wind up (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: calm (v), stifle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Excite

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Verb: amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one.

Attention

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Desire

Cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke desire; whet the appetite; appetize, titillate, allure, attract, take one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement; tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche.

Disapprobation

Incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Fear

Inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise aprehensions; be in a daze, bulldoze; faze, feeze; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry " wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony.

Hate

Excite hatred, provoke hatred; Noun: be hateful; Adjective: stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil.

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Physical Energy

Verb: give -energy; Noun: energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert; sharpen, intensify; inflame; (render violent); wind up; (strengthen).

Physical Sensibility

Cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an impression.

Pity

Raise pity, excite pity; n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.

Prediction

Hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor.

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Violence

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Excite

English words defined with "excite": Alarm clock, AmoveCherup, ConciteDistasteiveelectrify, Emmove, Enfever, excitant, Excitate, excitative, excitatory, Exciting causes, Excitive, Exsuscitatefire up, fluorescence microscopy, Formidableness, Ftictionheat, Hoaignite, Illude, Incend, Incensive, inflame, Instimulate, interest, irritating, irritativeLove potion, Lovelily, LudificatoryMagnetical, MiskindleOdible, OverexcitePokerish, Prodigiousness, provocativeRemordsensationalism, sense organ, stir up, Subjective sensation, Sullevate, Suscitatetickle, titillate, To elevate a piece, To poke fun, To raise Cain, To raise the devil, To rub up, To work upVermuthwake, work. (references)
Specialty definitions using "excite": ARTIFICIAL-BREEDING TECHNICIAN, Aston dark spacebreeding technicianCLEYMES, Coals, Cut neither Nails nor Hair at SeaFluorescent Light, FUN-HOUSE OPERATORGastrinsphotoelectric effectsoftware laser, Surface Plasmon Resonancewalk-through operator. (references)
Etymologies containing "excite": AmusiveDistasteiveExcitateInexcitable. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Excite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (excites).

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Modern Usage: Excite

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I You must not excite yourself. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to excite me. (The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan)

Does that excite you? (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane; writing credit: Rex Weiner; James Cappe)

See how you excite me? (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Lyrics

'Cause your lies don't excite me, no no (Whatchulookinat; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Excite

DomainTitle

Books

  • Excite the Mind (reference)

  • EXCITE, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Gifted Books, Gifted Readers: Literature Activities to Excite Young Minds (reference)

  • Para Excitarlas, 39 Fantasias Sexuales/39 Fantasies on How to Excite Women (reference)

  • The Book of Lovers: Men Who Excite Women, Women Who Excite Men (Llewellyn's Popular Astrology Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • 101 Ways to Excite Your Lover (reference)

  • Playboy: 101 Ways to Excite Your Lover (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Excite

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a procedure to treat cancer. Patients are injected with a photosensitizer which is a light sensitive drug selectively retained by cancer cells. When exposed to laser light, the photosensitizer in the cancer cells produces a toxic reaction which destroys the tumor. This photo shows an argon-ion laser, the first component of the argon pumped-dye laser (630nm red). This argon-ion laser emits blue-green light at 488/514 nm, and is used to excite a dye in the second component, the dye laser head, where the wavelength is changed to 630nm red. Different photosensitizers absorb light at different wavelengths. Some absorb light most efficiently in the blue light region of the spectrum around 400 nanometers(nm) with lesser absorption in the green and red light range. However, red light at 630 nm penetrates deeper into the tumor tissue (3-8 mm) than green or blue light. For this reason, the majority of PDT work has used 630 nm light. See artwork: GA-17.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Excite".

PlayCaption
Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Excite

AuthorQuotation

Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

George Bancroft

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Peter Abelard

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

Samuel Johnson

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Excite

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

These whispers were enough to arouse and excite all this nature.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Excite

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Neurotransmitters may excite, inhibit, or otherwise influence the activity of cells. (references)

Glutamate is the neurotransmitter most often used by nerve cells to activate, or excite, one another. (references)

Glutamate, the most prevalent neurotransmitter by which nerve cells excite (activate) one another, is usually the culprit. (references)

Business

While Yahoo Japan and the other top 2 slightly decreased their shares from the previous year, LYCOS Japan, excite Japan and FreshEye and MSN Search increased their shares. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Excite

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797The subject is of so much moment in my estimation as to excite a constant solicitude that the consideration of it may be renewed until the greatest attainable perfection shall be accomplished.

John Adams

1797-1801In connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the Indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the United States.

James Madison

1809-1817This patriotic zeal, which it was necessary rather to limit than excite, has embodied an ample force from the States of Kentucky and Ohio and from parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837To follow to the tomb the last of his race and to tread on the graves of extinct nations excite melancholy reflections.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Excite

"Excite" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.61% of the time. "Excite" is used about 218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)76.61%16724,143
Lexical Verb (base form)23.39%5147,619
                    Total100.00%218N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Excite

Expressions using "excite": excite an impression excite curiosity excite the feelings. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "excite": over-excite, Self-excite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Excite

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  excite

20,135

  chat excite super

73

  search excite

1,740

  excite messenger private

72

  excite horoscope

965

  excite group

66

  excite chat

601

  excite chat rooms

65

  excite mail

413

  excite adult personal ads

57

  excite com

375

  excite uk

57

  excite game

361

  avatars excite

52

  excite email

275

  excite instant messenger

52

  excite messenger

262

  bike excite

50

  excite people and chat

229

  excite club

49

  excite personals

202

  excite google yahoo

48

  excite home page

200

  excite e mail

46

  excite adult personals

192

  excite classifieds

45

  excite inbox

101

  excite profile

44

  excite map

97

  download excite messenger

44

  excite search engine

92

  my excite page

43

  excite japan

91

  chat download excite

41

  directory excite member

88

  excite member

40

  excite home

78

  avatars chat excite

32

  excite love o meter

75

  adult classifieds excite

32
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Excite

Language Translations for "excite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

emocionoj (choke up, effect, thrill, touch), eksitoj (stimulate), nxeh (chafe, cook, enrage, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, Mull, rile, roil, torrefy, vex), ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, exalt, feed up, heal, incur, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chaff, chip, dare, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tamper, tease). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هاج (carry along, carry away, fling about, flush, fluster, inflame, kindle, ramp, rave, seethe, thrill, toss, vex), ‏نشط الذاكرة (nudge), ‏نبه (awaken, exhilarate, jog, remind, stimulate, urge, waken, whet), ‏حمس (elate, enthuse, rouse, thrill, toast, whip up, work up), ‏إستفز (provoke), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стимулирам (animate, brace, exhilarate, goad, innervate, irritate, quicken, stimulate, urge), карам да излъчва, възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, sting, stir, thrill, turn on), вълнувам (affect, agitate, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, vex, work up), намагнитизирам (magnetize), подбуждам (abet, actuate, foment, galvanize, incite, instigate, motivate, prod, prompt, provoke, raise, urge on). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(high, lofty, raise up, to shrug, towering), (nourish, this), 激起 (arouse, inflame), 激发 (Excited, exciting, Vitalize, Vitalized, Vitalizing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vzrušit (arouse, thrill, trouble), vzbudit (arouse, attract, call, incur, kindle, to wake up, wake, wake up), rozrušit (derange, disturb, upset), rozèilit (disturb, incense, madden, spite), podráždit (nettle, sting). (various references)

   

Danish

  

oprøre (agitate, rouse, stir up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

prikkelen (abet, agitate, incite, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, stir up), opwinden (abet, agitate, incite, reeling, rouse, stir up, strech, wind, wind up, winding up), aanwakkeren (abet, agitate, encourage, fan, fire, freshen, impel, increase, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

eksciti, inciti (abet, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

arga (abet, carp at, haze, incite, provoke, quibble, rouse, stimulate, stir up), øsa (abet, agitate, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), القاء کردن (Implant, Induct, Infuse, Inspire), برانگیختن (Abet, Act, Actuate, Arouse, Evince, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Heat, Impulse, Infuse, Instigate, Irritate, Nettle, Prod, Prompt, Provoke, Roust, Sick, Whet), براشفتن (Embarrass, Ruffle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ärsyttää (abet, agitate, incite, irritate, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up, tease). (various references)

   

French

  

exciter, irriter (exacerbate). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oansjasje (abet, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), oanhysje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, impel, incite, inspire, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge). (various references)

   

German

  

erregen (actuate, affect, agitate, annoy, arouse, attract, capture, cause, come in for, create, energize, generate, inflame, infuriate, move, operate, provoke, raise, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, to energize, to excite, v.), aufregen (agitate, annoy, discompose, disturb, fash, fluster, get, irritate, make edgy, make nervous, rouse, stir up, to agitate, to discompose, to excite, to fluster, unsettle, upset), reizen (abet, aggravate, annoy, appeal, bid, bidden, bidding, incite, irritate, irritation, itch, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, rouse, stimulate, stir up, tease, tempt, to irritate, to pique), anreizen (abet, act as an incentive, encourage, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), anregen (abet, agitate, animate, encourage, incite, innervate, inspire, instigate, motivate, prompt, propose, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir up, suggest, to animate, to excite, to innervate, to inspire, to motivate, to stimulate, vivify, whet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ερεθίζω (aggravate, chafe, exacerbate, exasperate, fret, incite, inflame, irritate, nettle, pique, provoke, rankle, rile, stimulate, to irritate, vex, whet), εξάπτω (flush, kindle), διεγείρω (actuate, arouse, incite, kindle, stimulate, switch on, to, to pick up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשל"ב (fire, inflame, kindle, rouse, set ablaze), לעורר (alarm, alert, appeal, contest, infuriate, inspire, instigate, occasion, promote, prompt, spark, spirit, stimulate, stir up), ל"ל"יב (animate, enthuse, kindle, stir up, whip up, work up), ל"תסיס (agitate, effervesce, ferment), ל"ר"יב (astound, embolden), ל"ר'יש (cause storm, enrage, feel, sense), ל"סעיר (agitate, infuriate), לר'ש (rage, sensitize, stir, storm). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

izgat (fluster, irritate, rile, stimulate, to alarm, to excite, to fillip, to flurry, to fluster, to flutter, to fret, to harangue, to irritate, to lash, to rile, to stir, to worry), felizgat (arouse, madden, ruffle, to alarm, to chafe, to excite, to faze, to ferment, to flurry, to fluster, to flutter, to key up, to lash, to touch up, to unsettle, to wind up, to work up), ösztönöz (drive, incite, innervate, invite, spur, stimulate, to actuate, to incite, to inspire, to prick, to touch up, to urge). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membangkitkan gairah. (various references)

   

Italian

  

spronare (abet, goad, incite, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, stir, stir up), incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, goad, hound, impel, incite, lash, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, tempt). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

エウスタキオ管 (eonism, essence, Eustachian tube, exciting, exciting game, exercise, exercise walking, exhibition, exhibition game, exhibition game or match, expander, expert, expert system, expo, exposition, express, expression, extra, extra hole, extra inning, extract). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

エキサイト . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

흥분하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

opphisse. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exciteay

   

Portuguese

  

incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, goad, hallow, impel, incite, instigate, instigation, move, prod, prompt, prompting, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, to prompt, urge), excitar (agitate, calorify, disgruntle, electrization, enlace, exciting, ferment, fire alarm, flurry, flush, fluster, galvanize, incense, incite, inflammability, intrigue, irritate, kindle, Kittle, move, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, thurify, waken, whet), aguçar (acuminate, point, rouse, sharpen, stir up, Whittle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), excita (agitate, awaken, irritate, pander to, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir up, tickle, whet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возбуждать (actuate, agitate, energize, engender, exasperate, flush, galvanize, hype up, incite, inflame, innervate, kindle, lash, pique). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tog (brew, build, distil, educate, lever, lift, raise, rear), dùisg (awake, awake; rouse up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uzbuditi (affect, disturb, stir, stir up, thrill, touch), oduševiti (enthuse, spirit, stir up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

instigar (abet, activate, cause, give rise to, incite, initiate, instigate, provoke, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up), excitar (arouse, energize, fan, incite, operate, raise, rouse, stir up, titillate, urge on, v., work up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upphetsa (inflame, unfuriate), egga (egg on, enkindle, goad, impel, incite, instigate, pique, prod, quicken, set on, stimulate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, disabuse of, evoke, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), telaşlandırmak (alarm, flurry, fluster, fuss, hasten, put in a flurry, ruffle), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, egg on, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up), heyecan uyandırmak (create a stir, make a stir), azdırmak (drive smb. wild, exacerbate, irritate, lead astray), alevlendírmek (abet, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tolgundyrmak (agitate, worry someone). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

спонукати (abet, actuate, cause, impel, impulse, induce, motivate, motive, prick, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur, urge), хвилювати (affect, agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ennyn (burn, inflame, kindle), cyffroi (actuate, agitate, arouse, bestir, disturb, move, provoke, stir). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Excite

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

accendo, amaricare, amaricatus, amariceris, calefaciat, calefaciebat, calefaciens, calefacientem, calefacis, calefacta, calefacti, calefactum, calefactus, commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, conciti, concito, erecta, erectae, erectas, erecti, erectio, erectionis, erectis, erecto, erectum, erectus, erexerat, erexerunt, erexi, erexisset, erexisti, erexit, erexitque, erigam, erigantur, erigas, erigat, erige, erigebant, erigens, erigent, erigere, eriges, erigetis, erigetur, erigimini, erigit, erigite, erigitur, excita, excitabis, excitabit, excitabitur, excitabo, excitandi, excitandum, excitantibus, excitare, excitatas, excitate, excitatus, excitaverunt, excitavi, excitavit, excitet, excito, exsuscitem, flamma, flammantem, flammantis, flammas, incendas, incendat, incendatur, incendebant, incendens, incendent, incenderant, incenderent, incenderit, incenderunt, incendes, incendet, incendetque, incendetur, incendimus, incendit, incenditur, incensa, incensae, incensi, incensio, incenso, incensorum, incensu, incensum, incensumque, inflammabatur, inflammabit, inflammat, inflammata, inflammatio, inflammatum, inflammaverunt, inflammavit, inritabo, inritandum, inritantes, inritare, inritarent, inritares, inritaret, inritat, inritatus, inritaverunt, inritavit, inritetis, inspirans, inspirata, inspirati, inspiravit, irrita, irritas, irrito, lacessentes, percello, suscito. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Excite

LanguageDateSourceHebrews Chapter 10, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai katanowmen allhlouV eiV paroxusmon agaphV kai kalwn ergwn
Latin405VulgateEt consideremus invicem in provocationem caritatis et bonorum operum
Middle English1395WyclifAnd biholde we togidere in the stiring of charite and of good werkis; not forsakinge oure gadering togidere,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd let vs consyder one another to provoke vnto love and to good workes:
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd let us consider one another to excite to love and to good works:
Basic English1964OgdenAnd let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Excite

LanguageHebrews Chapter 10, Verse 24
Cebuanoug mamalandong kita alang sa pagdinasigay sa usa ug usa ngadto sa paghigugma ug sa mga maayong binuhatan,
Chinese又 要 彼 此 相 顧 、 激 發 愛 心 、 勉 勵 行 善 。
CroatianI pazimo jedni na druge da se potièemo na ljubav i dobra djela
Danishog lader os give Agt på hverandre, så vi opflamme hverandre til Kærlighed og gode Gerninger
DutchEn laat ons op elkander acht nemen, tot opscherping der liefde en der goede werken;
Finnishja valvokaamme toinen toistamme rohkaisuksi toisillemme rakkauteen ja hyviin tekoihin;
FrenchVeillons les uns sur les autres, pour nous exciter la charité et aux bonnes oeuvres.
Germanund lasset uns untereinander unser selbst wahrnehmen mit Reizen zur Liebe und guten Werken
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDan hendaklah kita saling memperhatikan, supaya kita dapat saling memberi dorongan untuk mengasihi sesama dan melakukan hal-hal yang baik.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamadan biarlah kita hirau-menghiraukan sama sendiri akan membangkitkan kasih dan perbuatan yang baik.
ItalianCerchiamo anche di stimolarci a vicenda nella carit e nelle opere buone,
LatvianUn vçrosim cits citu, lai pamudinâtos mîlestîbâ un labajos darbos!
MaoriKia whai whakaaro ano tatou tetahi ki tetahi, kia whakaohokia te aroha me nga mahi pai:
Norwegianog la oss gi akt på hverandre, så vi opgløder hverandre til kjærlighet og gode gjerninger,
Portuguesee consideremo-nos uns aos outros, para nos estimularmos ao amor e s boas obras,   
RumanianSq veghem unii asupra altora, ca sq ne kndemnqm la dragoste wi la fapte bune.
ShuarPénker anenain tura pénker Túrin ajasartai tusar mai yainiaikiartiniaitji.
SpanishConsiderémonos los unos a los otros para estimularnos al amor y a las buenas obras.
SwahiliTujitahidi kushughulikiana kwa ajili ya kuongezeana bidii ya kupendana na kutenda mema.
SwedishOch låtom oss akta på varandra för att uppliva varandra till kärlek och goda gärningar;
UmaKana momepe'ili' -ta pai' mome'apui ngkanono-ta bona mpoka'ahi' doo-ta pai' mpobabehi po'ingku to lompe'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Excite

Derivations

Words beginning with "excite": excited, excitedly, excitement, excitements, exciter, exciters, excites. (additional references)

Words ending with "excite": overexcite. (additional references)

Words containing "excite": hyperexcited, hyperexcitement, hyperexcitements, overexcited, overexcites, photoexcited, unexcited. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Excite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Axkxt, Eccoti, Ecitb, ecxite, encite, esciter, eucrite, excade, Exceat, excete, Excidia, excine, excipter, excire, excist, excit, excitor, excize, excode, excore, excta, excute, exice, exite, exitel, exiter, exocit, exoite, expite, exsheath. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Excite"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "excite" (pronounced iksī"t)
4-k s ī" toverexcite.
3-s ī" tcite, incite, recite, sight, site.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Excite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-t-x"

-2 letters: cete, cite, etic, exec, exit.

-3 letters: cee, ice, tee, tic, tie.

-4 letters: et, ex, it, ti, xi.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-t-x"
 

+1 letter: excited, exciter, excites.

 

+2 letters: exciters, exegetic, exoteric.

 

+3 letters: coexisted, excepting, exception, exceptive, excipient, excitable, excitedly, excoriate, excreting, excretion, executing, execution, executive, executrix, existence, expecting, explicate, exsecting, exsiccate, extincted, extricate, unexcited.

 

+4 letters: ciphertext, coexerting, coexistent, detoxicate, epexegetic, exactitude, exceptions, excerpting, excerption, excipients, excitative, excitement, excogitate, excoriated, excoriates, excretions, excruciate, execrating, execration, execrative, executions, executives, exegetical, existences, exothermic, exoticness, explicated, explicates, exsiccated, exsiccates, extinctive, extractive, extricable, extricated, extricates, overexcite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Excite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 63 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    -.-.    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100011 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#99 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

399069758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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