excite

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ĭk-sītʹ

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. transitive
    — The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
  2. To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. transitive
    — Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
    [S]aint Paul says and to the Romans he has written that by hearing of such ringing men have the faith perfectly so that he did not put the ringing in the script but it exciteth the memory in what manner men should believe
  3. To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. transitive
    — By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.
  4. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
    — to excite a dynamo

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
deexcite excitability excitable excitative exciteful excitive exciton excitosome excitron overexcite photoexcite preexcite self-excite sexcite superexcite
相关词
excitement excitation

词源

From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitō (“to call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of excieō (“to call out, arouse, excite”), from ex (“out”) + cieō (“to call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.
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