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.
To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
To raise to a higher energy level; - used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
To move or actuate.
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
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.
To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.
To raise to a higher energy level; - used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
To move or actuate.
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.