Excite vs Enkindle - What's the difference?
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To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
* 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
Excite is a related term of enkindle.
As verbs the difference between excite and enkindle
is that excite is while enkindle is to kindle; to arouse or evoke.As an adjective excite
is horny; excited.excite
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Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- 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.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.
Antonyms
* relax, calmExternal links
* * ----enkindle
English
Verb
(enkindl)- That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
- "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,