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Incense vs Excite - What's the difference?

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Incense is a related term of excite.


As verbs the difference between incense and excite

is that incense is to anger or infuriate while excite is .

As a noun incense

is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.

As an adjective excite is

horny; excited.

incense

English

Noun

(wikipedia incense)
  • A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
  • Derived terms

    * incense boat * incense cedar

    Verb

  • To anger or infuriate.
  • I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
  • (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
  • To offer incense to.
  • (Chaucer)
  • To perfume with, or as with, incense.
  • * Marston
  • Incensed with wanton sweetes.
  • (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
  • * Chapman
  • Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.

    excite

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    Antonyms

    * relax, calm