1. Arouse or elicit a feeling
   "The announcement excited curiosity among the students"
    
2. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
   "The news excited the crowd";
   - agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove [archaic], charge up
    
3. Arouse feelings in
   "excite the audience";
   - stimulate, stir
    
4. Excite the feelings or emotions of; disturb the peace of
   "These stories excited the community";
   - shake, shake up, stir
    
5. To evoke sexual feelings
   "This movie usually excites the male audience";
   - arouse, turn on, wind up
    
6. Act as a stimulant
   "The book excited her imagination";
   - stimulate
    
7. Raise to a higher energy level
   "excite the atoms";
   - energize, energise [Brit]
    
8. Produce a magnetic field in
   "excite the neurons"

Derived forms: excited, exciting, excites

Type of: affect, alter, arouse, bear on, bear upon, change, disturb, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, impact, kindle, modify, provoke, raise, sensitise [Brit], sensitize, trouble, upset

Antonym: dampen

Encyclopedia: Excite