verb
- Arouse or elicit a feeling.
- synonyms: excite
- Act as a stimulant.
- usage: "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates"
- Stir feelings in.
- usage: "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
- Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.
- usage: "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- Stimulate sexually.
- usage: "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
- Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.
- usage: "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
- Raise to a higher energy level.
- usage: "excite the atoms"
- Produce a magnetic field in.
- usage: "excite the neurons"
- synonyms: excite
adjective
- Of persons. ( excessively affected by emotion)
- usage: "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"
- In an aroused state.
- Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion.
- usage: "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
- synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained
- Of e. G. A molecule. ( made reactive or more reactive).
- synonyms: activated
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