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单词 excited
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excitedadj.

Brit. /ᵻkˈsʌɪtᵻd/, /ɛkˈsʌɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ɪkˈsaɪdᵻd/, /ɛkˈsaɪdᵻd/
Etymology: < excite v. + -ed suffix1.
1.
a. Stirred by strong emotion, disturbed, agitated.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > [adjective]
fevering?a1200
upreareda1382
warm1390
amoveda1400
entalented1402
stirred1483
intoxicatea1533
roused1575
vibrant1575
waked1581
irritated1595
uproused1597
gunpowdered1604
concitated1652
exagitated1659
animated1660
upstirreda1666
instinct1667
hot-headed1679
flushed1749
abubble1766
agig1767
fermentitious1807
suscitated1811
effervescent1833
effervescing1837
quick1837
galvanized1843
ginger beery1849
excited1855
ablaze1859
het1862
effervescible1866
thrilly1893
piqued1902
all of a doodah1915
hopped-up1923
adrenalized1935
volted1936
hyped1938
spooked up1939
twitterpated1942
up1942
jazzed1955
psyched1963
amped1967
plugged-in1967
torqued1967
buzzy1978
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 275 The population of Edinburgh was in an excited state.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 216 The excited people..rushed out to me.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times I. 199 Thiers carried with him much of the excited public feeling of France.
b. Of trade: Abnormally brisk or active.
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society > trade and finance > [adjective] > good or bad (of trade)
well-traded1609
sulke1636
quicka1687
dull1705
brisk1719
roaring1731
rousing1767
slow1823
briskish1864
upwith1864
excited1878
turnaway1943
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 123 Business men must become..careful during excited trade.
2.
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a. In which electrical or magnetic action has been induced; electrized, magnetized.
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b. Of bodily organs or tissues: Affected by a stimulus.
c. Of a seismographic instrument: Agitated.
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1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 144 Excited Needles, when they stick fastest to each other, owe their Union to their having both been touched by the Loadstone.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 129 The different states may be known by presenting a metallic point to the excited body.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. x. 235 The visible direction of an object should be a line perpendicular to the curvature of the retina at the excited point.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ii. §35. 37 The excited magnetic field.
1881 Standard 12 Aug. The instruments become less excited, and gradually fall back to more normal conditions.
d. excited radioactivity n. Rutherford's name for artificial or induced radioactivity, as opposed to that which occurs naturally.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > making radioactive > [noun] > induced radioactivity
excited radioactivity1900
induced (radio)activity1900
1900 Rutherford in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 49 161 Thorium compounds under certain conditions possess the property of producing temporary radioactivity in all solid substances in their neighbourhood... Attention was first drawn to this phenomenon of what may be termed ‘excited radioactivity’ by the apparent failure of good insulators..to continue to insulate.
1913 E. Rutherford Radioactive Substances x. 391 The activity thus produced on inactive substances was..known as ‘induced’ or ‘excited’ radio-activity.
e. Physics. Of an atom or an orbiting electron, or a nucleus, molecule, etc.: not in its ground state; able to lose energy by emitting electromagnetic radiation or a particle; excited state, a state of a quantized system having more energy than the ground state.
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the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > raising energy level, excitation > [adjective] > emitting energy
excited1921
the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > raising energy level, excitation > [noun] > state of lowest level > higher level than
excited state1921
1921 Chem. Abstr. 15 3931 Recent researches..lead to the establishment of the existence of excited atoms in a metastable state.
1927 T. Verschoyle tr. A. E. Haas Atomic Theory 176 His observations..lead to an approximate value of 10—8 sec. for the mean duration of the excited state.
1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) ix. 99 Excited states have only a limited life, and..the energy surplus of the excited nuclei will gradually be emitted in the form of γ-rays.
1953 P. Morrison in E. Segrè Exper. Nucl. Physics II. vi. v. 63 The outgoing particles will in general take away only a small part of the excitation energy, leaving behind an excited residual nucleus.
1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics x. 170 We might expect the mesonic cloud surrounding a nucleon core to be capable of existing in excited states of higher energy..and to ‘radiate’ mesons.

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exˈcitedness n. the state or quality of being excited, excitement.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a state of excitement
heydayc1590
furor1704
feveret1712
kippage1808
raptus1845
take-on1893
gale1894
excitedness1934
up1966
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1963 Times 14 Jan. 3/2 During the next 20 minutes French excitedness gave K. J. F. Scotland three reasonable pots at penalty goals.
1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes iii. 79 Juan was a strange amalgam of tidy habits and almost eruptive, messy excitedness.

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Sexually aroused. Earliest and frequently in sexually excited.
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1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 356 Horn-mad,..sexually excited, lecherous.
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method vi. 130 One day, her friend stroked her hand affectionately, she became excited and resumed the masturbation which she had practiced when five or six years old and then repressed under the influence of her sister until a half year ago.
1919 Biol. Bull. 37 229 A male [guinea-pig] after long isolation from females becomes sexually excited by the presence of any female.
1956 Marriage & Family Living 18 356/2 She just didn't feel sexually excited toward her husband.
1999 F. Wynne tr. M. Houellebecq Atomised (2001) 86 I was so excited that I came right there before I could even put it in her.
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