excite

verb

• To stir the emotions of.

  "The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present."

• To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.

  "Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored."

• 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."

• To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

  "to excite a dynamo"