Amaze vs Excite - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between amaze and excite

is that amaze is to stupefy; to knock unconscious while excite is to stir the emotions of.

is amazement, astonishment.

(amaz)

(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.

(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

* Shakespeare

a labyrinth to amaze his foes

(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:

[Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].

To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.

He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

* Bible, Matthew xii. 23

And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?

* Goldsmith

Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

To undergo amazement; to be astounded.

(-)

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:

All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

Shattuck looked at him in amaze .

* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:

She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.

(excit)

To stir the emotions of.

The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.

To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.

Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.

The political reforms excited unrest among to population.

There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.

(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.

By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.

* relax, calm

* * ----