Excites

Definition

excite /Çk'saÇt/ v ၁။ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားေစသည္၊ တက္ႂကြေစသည္။ The children were very much excited by the news. ❍ The prospect of going to India for a year greatly excited her. ❍ Don't excite yourself (ie Keep calm). ၂။ (က) ~ sth (in sb) (ခံစားမႈ တစ္ခုခု) ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ excite envy/admiration/greed (in sb) ❍ excite public suspicion ❍ Recent discoveries have excited great interest among doctors. (ခ) ရာဂစိတ္ကို ႏိုးၾကားေစသည္။ Some people are (sexually) excited by pornographic magazines. ၃။ ( fml ) ဖ်တ္လတ္တက္ႂကြေစသည္။ drugs that excite the nervous system. ❏ excitation /eksÇ'teÇʃn, eksaÇ/ n [U] ( fml or techn ) ႏိုးၾကားလာမႈ။ sexual excitation. ❏ excited /Çk'saÇtÇd/ adj ~ (about/at sth); ~ (to do sth) စိတ္ထက္သန္တက္ႂကြေသာ။ the children's excited faces ❍ He was terribly excited to be asked to play for Wales. ❍ be excited about going on holiday ❍ It's nothing to get excited about. excitedly adv : The girls danced around excitedly. ❏ exciting adj စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားရေသာ။ ေပ်ာ္စရာေကာင္းေသာ။ an exciting story/discovery ❍ A trip in a hot-air balloon sounded very exciting. excitingly adv

Examples

1. The prospect of working in Australia really excites me.
2. We were warned by the doctors not to excite him.
3. [excite interest/curiosity/sympathy etc] : The film has so far excited little interest outside the art-house cinemas.
4. [excite comment/speculation/rumours] : Two merger announcements excited speculation about further takeover action.