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verb

past tense of excite

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an excited state
an enthusiastic state
an energetic state
an eager state
an anxious state
an excitable state
an excited voice
an exuberant voice
an upbeat voice
a cheerful voice
an energetic voice
an enthusiastic voice
an excited crowd
an energized crowd
a pumped-up crowd
an energetic crowd
an ecstatic crowd
an exuberant crowd
excited chatter
giddy chatter
intense chatter
noisy chatter
cheerful chatter
busy chatter

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Recent Examples of excited
Adjective
The Leslie Knope actress recalled being just as excited as her character to see the first lady - perhaps too excited. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 May 2025 And for toddlers who aren’t always amendable to sitting down at the dinner table, anything that might help them get excited about mealtimes is going to be a win for parents, too. Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 May 2025
Verb
Maplewood, Minnesota, Dayton, Ohio, there’s just places across the country where there are going to be hundreds of readers excited about a book release at midnight. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025 Marketers are right to be excited by the potential of AI. Forrester, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for excited
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excited
Adjective
  • The grizzly was even more agitated, rocking back and forth, making mini-lunges.
    Alann B. Steen, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2025
  • Bella and Edward, the most inhumanly beautiful Cullen of all, meet-cute-ish when she’s forced to sit next to him in biology lab and he seems agitated by her presence, even repulsed.
    Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Like Sánchez, many Chicago-area Catholics are making the nearly 4,000-mile pilgrimage to the Vatican to witness the inauguration Mass and other papal events this month, eager to celebrate one of their own rising to become Catholicism’s spiritual leader.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • Sometimes the person accepting the soft promotion is eager to move up the ladder.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • That's new, and not everyone is thrilled about it.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Parents of college students who are home for the holidays are thrilled.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The party has dismissed the raucous town halls in conservative districts as the work of liberal activist groups, which have encouraged people to flood public forums in an attempt to highlight frustrations with the administration.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Before the Democratic National Convention in 1912, McCombs encouraged prominent journalists and editors to write articles supportive of Wilson's nomination.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The topic garnered passionate and heated discourse from council members and the mayor. City Council member Cheryl Littlejohn took to the podium during the public comment period to give a speech expressing her own disappointment and frustration about the policy and city operations.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
  • Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence in prison after being convicted on three felony counts for shooting Megan Thee Stallion during a heated dispute outside a Hollywood Hills party in July 2020.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the novel’s historical re-creation, is there an anxious note to Americans now losing themselves in accommodation?
    David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • An inaccurate diagnosis might lead to unnecessary or risky treatment, and a false positive can cause stress by requiring additional tests and anxious waits for results.
    Max Votek, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • The incident was caught on video, making waves online and on local TV news, and provoked an outcry from fellow residents.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
  • His 1954 run for governor in Connecticut provoked questions about whether the state was ready for a Jewish governor.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Santa Margarita 6, Huntington Beach 5: Chase Marlow singled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning to give the Eagles an upset over Sunset League champion Huntington Beach.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • But there are things companies can proactively do to help identify their best options and maybe even turn this upset condition into a business advantage for product lines.
    Ryan Gray, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

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