1.
arouse or elicit a feeling
Synonyms
: ['excite']
2.
act as a stimulant
The book stimulated her imagination;
This play stimulates;
Synonyms
: ['stimulate', 'excite']
Antonyms
: ['stifle']
3.
stir feelings in
stimulate my appetite;
excite the audience;
stir emotions;
Synonyms
: ['stimulate', 'excite', 'stir']
4.
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks;
Synonyms
: ['agitate', 'rouse', 'turn_on', 'charge', 'commove', 'excite', 'charge_up']
Antonyms
: ['calm']
5.
stimulate sexually
This movie usually arouses the male audience;
Synonyms
: ['arouse', 'sex', 'excite', 'turn_on', 'wind_up']
6.
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
These stories shook the community;
the civil war shook the country;
Synonyms
: ['stimulate', 'shake', 'shake_up', 'excite', 'stir']
7.
raise to a higher energy level
excite the atoms;
Synonyms
: ['excite', 'energize', 'energise']
8.
produce a magnetic field in
excite the neurons;
Synonyms
: ['excite']
9.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
he would become emotional over nothing at all;
she was worked up about all the noise;
Synonyms
: ['aroused', 'emotional', 'worked_up']
11.
marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
a crowd of delirious baseball fans;
something frantic in their gaiety;
a mad whirl of pleasure;
Synonyms
: ['delirious', 'frantic', 'mad', 'unrestrained']
12.
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
Synonyms
: ['activated']