"excited" in the verb sense

1. excite

arouse or elicit a feeling

2. stimulate, excite

act as a stimulant

"The book stimulated her imagination"

"This play stimulates"

3. stimulate, excite, stir

stir feelings in

"stimulate my appetite"

"excite the audience"

"stir emotions"

4. agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up

cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

5. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up

stimulate sexually

"This movie usually arouses the male audience"

6. stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir

stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

"These stories shook the community"

"the civil war shook the country"

7. excite, energize, energise

raise to a higher energy level

"excite the atoms"

8. excite

produce a magnetic field in

"excite the neurons"

"excited" in the adjective sense

1. aroused, emotional, excited, worked up

of persons) excessively affected by emotion

"he would become emotional over nothing at all"

"she was worked up about all the noise"

2. excited

in an aroused state

3. delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained

marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

"a crowd of delirious baseball fans"

"something frantic in their gaiety"

"a mad whirl of pleasure"

4. activated, excited

of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive

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