excite

excite is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

[2] To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

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