Crossword-Solution: EXCITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excite | v. t. | 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. |
| Excite | v. t. | To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXCITE (5)
Whenever Pearl saw anything to excite her ever active and wandering curiosity, she flew thitherward, and, as we might say, seized upon that man or thing as her own property, so far as she desired it, but without yielding the minutest degree of control over her motions in requital.
They confided to each other that Tillie was “just a little off, on the subject of her niece,” and agreed that it would be as well not to excite her further.
She tried to rouse him by sharpening her ready wit against his dull intellect; endeavoured to excite his jealousy, if she could not rouse his love; tried to goad him to self-assertion, but all in vain.
Admitting (as I could not deny) the general truth of these conclusions, I cannot but think it strange that no attempt has been made to excite an interest for the traditions and manners of Old England, similiar to that which has been obtained in behalf of those of our poorer and less celebrated neighbours.
But out of his native element the ape-man was too greatly handicapped to do more than excite the monster to greater speed as it dragged its prey swiftly through the water.
Quotes with EXCITE (3)
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader’s mind with the colors of emotion.
You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).