excite: Meaning and Definition of

ex•cite

1. to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: to excite a person to anger; actions that excited his father's wrath.
2. to arouse or stir up (emotions or feelings): to excite jealousy or hatred.
3. to cause; awaken: to excite interest or curiosity.
4. to stir to action; provoke or stir up: to excite a dog by baiting him.
5. to stimulate: to excite a nerve.
6. to supply with electricity for producing electric activity or a magnetic field: to excite a dynamo.
7. to raise (an atom, molecule, etc.) to an excited state.