American English pronunciation
How to pronounce excited
IPA transcription: [ɪk'saɪtəd]
Pronunciation variants: [ɪk'saɪtəd][ɪk'saɪtɪd]
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Verb
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act as a stimulant
“The book stimulated her imagination”
“This play stimulates”
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stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
“These stories shook the community”
“the civil war shook the country”
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arouse or elicit a feeling
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stir feelings in
“stimulate my appetite”
“excite the audience”
“stir emotions”
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
“The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks”
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stimulate sexually
“This movie usually arouses the male audience”
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raise to a higher energy level
“excite the atoms”
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produce a magnetic field in
“excite the neurons”
Adjective
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in an aroused state
Adjective
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marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
“a crowd of delirious baseball fans”
“something frantic in their gaiety”
“a mad whirl of pleasure”
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(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
“he would become emotional over nothing at all”
“she was worked up about all the noise”
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(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
Usage examples
- Everyone seemed very excited.
- Before you get too excited, keep in mind that it only applies to low-dimensional problems.
- He was excited, and at the same time uneasy: maybe the girl had already forgotten him.
- When excited atomic states decay, energy is released by fluorescence.
- The ejected photoelectron interacts with electrons in the surrounding non-excited atoms.
- Excited young boy playing in water while holding a stuffed Dalmatian.
- Everyone seemed very excited.
- Before you get too excited, keep in mind that it only applies to low-dimensional problems.
- Before you get too excited, keep in mind that it only applies to low-dimensional problems.
- Well, all right, no need to get excited about it.