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excitar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arouse verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
  • excite verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  • exhilarate verb To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
  • heat noun The energy or sensation of high temperature; warmth.
  • thrill verb To give someone a sudden rush of excitement or pleasure.

Senses

excitar is used for these senses in English:

  • arouse (transitive) To sexually stimulate.
  • excite (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
  • exhilarate (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
  • heat (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  • stir up (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action, etc.).
  • thrill (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

arouse — full definition

  1. verb To stir up or bring about a feeling, reaction, or interest.
  2. verb To sexually excite someone.
  3. verb To wake someone from sleep.

excite — full definition

  1. verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  2. verb In physics, to push an electron up to a higher energy level, or to energize a magnet so it produces a field.

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