Excite vs Waken - What's the difference?
excite | waken | Synonyms |
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.
(lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
(lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Excite is a synonym of waken.
As verbs the difference between excite and waken
is that excite is while waken is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.As an adjective excite
is horny; excited.excite
English
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.