Definition of Excite

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Excite

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

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Excite Quotations

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles

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

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Eric Cantona

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.
Nicholas Lea

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
James Broughton

Excite Translations

excite in Dutch is aanwakkeren, prikkelen, opwinden
excite in German is aufregen, erregen
excite in Italian is agitare
excite in Latin is concito, suscito, irrito
excite in Norwegian is opphisse
excite in Spanish is excitar, soliviantar
excite in Swedish is egga, uppvigla, upphetsa

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