Definition of "excite" []

• To stir to activity. (verb-transitive)
• To call forth (a reaction or emotion, for example); elicit: odd noises that excited our curiosity. (verb-transitive)
• To arouse strong feeling in: speakers who know how to excite a crowd. See Synonyms at provoke. (verb-transitive)
• Physiology To produce increased activity or response in (an organ, tissue, or part); stimulate. (verb-transitive)
• Physics To increase the energy of. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The FBI indictments are to be unsealed today, which will once again excite the many people who likes to confuse the word “indictment” with “conviction.”"
• ": The land of Gennezar, by the lake of Gennezareth, takes its name from a natural power which it is said to have of spontaneously modulating its waters so as to excite a breeze; the Greek words importing, ` creating for itself the breeze. '"
• "I hope that microscopic researches may again excite the attention of philosophers, as unforeseen advantages may probably be derived from them, like the discovery of"