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excite (verb), excites; excited; exciting
1. To cause someone to feel enjoyment or pleasurable anticipation: Jerry was excited by his mother when she told him that the family would be going to see the special movie tomorrow.
2. To make a person or animal feel nervous apprehension or an unpleasant state of heightened emotion: Donald was told not to excite the dog or he might bite you.
3. To cause a memory, thought, or other response to form in the mind: George's grandmother was excited to hear that her grandchildren were coming to visit her next week.
4. To stimulate or to increase the rate of activity of an organ, tissue, or other body part: Bob's doctor told him that his medical operation would excite his physical functions much more.
5. Etymology: "to move, to instigate" from Latin excitare, "to rouse, to produce"; from exciere, "to call forth, to instigate"; from ex-, "out" + ciere "to set in motion, to call".
2. To make a person or animal feel nervous apprehension or an unpleasant state of heightened emotion: Donald was told not to excite the dog or he might bite you.
3. To cause a memory, thought, or other response to form in the mind: George's grandmother was excited to hear that her grandchildren were coming to visit her next week.
4. To stimulate or to increase the rate of activity of an organ, tissue, or other body part: Bob's doctor told him that his medical operation would excite his physical functions much more.
5. Etymology: "to move, to instigate" from Latin excitare, "to rouse, to produce"; from exciere, "to call forth, to instigate"; from ex-, "out" + ciere "to set in motion, to call".
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excited (adjective), more excited, most excited
1. Aroused to a condition of excitement; agitated.
2. Being in a state of excitement; emotionally aroused; stirred.
3. In physics, being at an energy level higher than the ground state.
2. Being in a state of excitement; emotionally aroused; stirred.
3. In physics, being at an energy level higher than the ground state.
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The 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin, an African-American, was very excited to meet the Obamas in the White House and she was dancing with joy.
Ms. McLaurin was invited as part of a Black History Month celebration. “I thought I would never live to get into the White House and I tell you I am so happy to have a black president,” she said to the smiling Barack Obama and the first lady, Michelle Obama.