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Definition of excite : 1. To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
2. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
3. To energize ( an electro- magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

Synonyms:

amaze, plump up, wind up, devolve on, spur, carry away, drive, evoke, appoint, stir up, institutionalize, fuse, jolt, warm, bandage, kindle, accelerate, bill, bring out, fire someone with enthusiasm, inspire, get off, charge, blame, force out, bring back, commove, bring about, prick, hinge upon, on the pull, cauterize, send, budge, trigger, hinge on, tear, hasten, fight, worry, anaesthetize, dazzle, catheterize, provoke, load, consign, press, goad, attend, titillate, desire, prod, switch on, interest, capture someone's interest/imagination/attention, intensify, irritate, anger, pump up, lodge, pique, waken, brace, foment, call down, egg on, bother, dilate, fluff up, turn on, rout out, infuriate, burden, wake, succuss, galvanize, incline, intoxicate, awake, put forward, astound, raise, shift, chill, bypass, shake up, ride, randy, encourage, bump around, rev, sex, induce, incite, point, reorganise, wind, delight, finish up, campaign, get, bestir, fetch up, stir, influence, escape from, dispose, conjure up, impel, convulse, energise, anesthetize, raise up, shoot down, start, have, land up, compel, jar, prompt, tease, trip out, push, invoke, shake, trip, call forth, awaken, enkindle, work up, shoot, make, wake up, attract, touch, cause, sway, thrill, charge up, motivate, draw, depend upon, commit, annoy, perk up, elicit, persuade, madden, institutionalise, want, drive out, fluster, depend on, spark, catch, didder, excited, rock, accuse, level, vex, shake off, crusade, bleed, frisky, urge, propel, set off, touch off, precipitate, intrigue, saddle, affect, lead, instigate, conjure, ignite, finish, throw off, reorganize, file, buck, actuate, bear down, judder, sexy, hot, bring up, move, end up, rush, get going, come alive

electrify, arouse, impassion, exhilarate, fire, inflame, disquiet, disturb, stimulate

energize, agitate, rouse, enthuse, revive, invigorate, animate, power, enliven, activate, strengthen

Usage examples:

• What subject more likely to excite his enthusiastic sympathy? - "The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study", William Heaford Daubney.
• Canadian money in Buffalo was too common to excite comment, therefore none of them had seen fit to follow out that clue of the two- dollar bill. - "Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories", Rex Beach.
• He owned himself to be the Earl of Argyle, probably in the hope that his great name would excite the awe and pity of those who had seized him. - "The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)", Thomas Babington Macaulay.