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🎉 To stir emotions ⚡ To stimulate 🔥 To arouse sexually 🔬 To energize (physics)
to excite

to excite

18 5.7
To make someone feel sexual desire
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈsaɪt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : excitar (sexualmente)
  • Does that excite you, or anger you, or what?

Novel it is Hold on, who's excited by spontaneous sex?

Examples

  • The image of taking her clothes off for him shook her and excited her.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Seeing him in that outfit really excites me.

  • Is that how we excite men?

    Jefferson in Paris (1995)

  • I did not move because I did not want to excite this man.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The one time he did have sex, it was to prove to himself that he could excite someone besides Eric.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • You should wait until you meet someone who excites you.

    Beautiful Girls (1996)

  • People would get excited sexually, you know, erotically about this sort of stuff.

  • When her head fell back, he sucked greedily, excited by the small, helpless sounds she made.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The romantic movie was designed to excite the audience.

  • She felt happy because he excited her with his sweet words.

Synonyms

to turn on
vsto excite
  • NSFW
152 7.2

To make someone feel excited or interested

refers specifically to causing sexual desire rather than general stimulation
to arouse
vsto excite
  • NSFW
42 6.6

Make someone feel sexual desire or excitement

has identical meaning and is used in the same sexual sense
to titillate
vsto excite
  • NSFW
8 8.3

Make someone feel a little excited in a playful or sexual way

causes stronger sexual desire rather than mild playful stimulation

Antonyms

to repulse
23 6.7

To make someone feel strong dislike or disgust

How Arousing

to overstimulate
  • Specialized
4 6.3
to arouse
  • NSFW
42 6.6
to excite
  • NSFW
18 5.7
to attract
991 1.9

Surface Forms

excite infinitive
excited past
excited past participle
exciting present participle
excites third person singular

Morphology

excite = cite (opaque) = ex + cite

The sexual- arousal sense is not predictable from 'cite' ('to quote') and so the morphological relation is opaque for learners.

Etymology

Excite comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and citare 'to move or call'. So to excite someone in a sexual way is to 'move' their feelings from calm to desire, which is why the word can mean 'arouse'.