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present tense third-person singular of excite
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1
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
- for some reason the first snowfall of the season never fails to excite us
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2
to rouse to strong feeling or action
- televised pictures of the victims of the famine that would excite any viewer to pity
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- calms,
- soothes,
- subdues,
- tranquilizes
- (also tranquillizes)
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