Word Meanings - EXCITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. Syn. -- To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. -- To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which

Additional info about word: EXCITE

To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. Syn. -- To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. -- To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of Cæsar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder. (more info) 1. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCITE)

• Agitate
• Disturb
• trouble
• excite
• ruffle
• stir
• fluster
• oscillate
• instigate
• convulse
• shake
• Arouse
• Stir
• disturb
• animate
• wake up
• stimulate
• alarm
• provoke
• cheer
• Enliven
• Wake
• vivify
• quicken
• invigorate
• exhilarate
• rouse
• inspirit
• Enrage
• Provoke
• incite
• madden
• incense
• aggravate
• irritate
• inflame
• embitter
• infuriate
• exasperate
• Evoke
• Excite
• educe
• elicit
• produce
• eliminate
• extract
• summon
• call out

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXCITE)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to EXCITE)

• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.