Excite: alternatives and connections

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To bring forth young.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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To set up; to put upright.

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To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

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To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.

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To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

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To make or become enthusiastic.

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To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

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To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

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Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

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To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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Intoxicated.

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To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

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To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To render null and void.

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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.

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To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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A warbling; a trill.

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To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

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To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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of Vibrate

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To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

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The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

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The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

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The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

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of Rouse

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of Rouse

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Serving to stimulate.

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Serving to stimulate.

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Having the quality of stimulating.

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Having the quality of stimulating.

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A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

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A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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