adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be excited/thrilled/delighted etc at the prospect (of sth)
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I was excited at the prospect of going to Washington.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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He was not particularly frightened himself, more excited and interested than alarmed, but he did not want to endanger Nona.
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As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression.
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The logogens for three-letter words ending with t would be even more excited .
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In spite of depressing circumstances, I was more excited and confident than I had ever been.
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We grew more and more excited .
quite
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At first, Robert's father had got quite excited .
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It's a new model they were quite excited .
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She was feeling quite excited now.
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I was quite excited and asked Andy Norman to help me.
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Juliet began to feel quite excited inside.
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So we're quite excited about it and also it's quite a major problem.
so
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It's so beautiful it's sort of scary - you know, feeling so excited at the lights.
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It was indecent, surely, to stand like this, in public, and feel so alive and so excited ?
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I had never seen any animal, human or otherwise, so wild - so determined, so excited , so driven.
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Then chided himself for getting so excited about one woman, after all the women he had known.
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I couldn't wait for the pictures to come out, I was so excited to see them.
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I don't think I've ever seen Radish so excited .
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For a second I get so excited , I have to calm myself down.
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I was so excited to see you again that I completely forgot to ask what's happened to your business.
too
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And what must the owner Cyril Watkins have felt, for he was too excited to watch the finish on television.
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Can't have you too excited .
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I get too excited sometimes and spoil things.
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The exhibition at the Academy would have interested her on another occasion but today she was too excited for contemplation.
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The man sank to his knees, but the boys were too excited to care.
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But don't get too excited .
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Brown was too excited to pick it up.
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He was too excited to sleep. £115,000 needed a lot of thinking about.
very
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Paul's mood as he writes to the Romans is a very excited one.
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Female speaker Very excited , very nervous also but I am relly looking forward to it.
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He was very excited and arranged extra meetings with the boys he had chosen as climbers so they could practise their skills.
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And Peter was very excited when he saw his engine, now as good as new again.
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When she did this, all the men in the theatre got very excited and stood up.
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I remember we went up to Euston together one Saturday morning, very excited , to buy the ticket in advance.
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The House is in a very excited state.
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He always got very excited when he asked this question.
■ NOUN
state
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This phenomenon, known as Fermi resonance, occurs because the two vibrationally excited states mix.
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The House is in a very excited state .
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Arriving back at the cottage, Otto was in a thoroughly excited state .
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So come on physicists: be coherent; get into a truly excited state .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As she kissed him, he became more and more excited .
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crowds of excited football fans
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Doctors are very excited by the discovery.
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He was getting sexually excited , and his breathing became short and fast.
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How can you be so excited about a stupid computer game?
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Police tried to hold back the excited crowd.
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Steve's coming home tomorrow - we're all really excited .
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When Mattie gets excited , she starts talking really fast.
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When we get home, the dogs are always excited to see us.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first, Robert's father had got quite excited .
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Don't get excited or you might be thumped, intellectually at least.
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He estimated the separation between the stripes of excited neurones from reported hallucinations to be 2 millimetres.
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It was indecent, surely, to stand like this, in public, and feel so alive and so excited ?
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My husband came back excited and said he would be going out again late in the evening.
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The excited delegates ran to the rail.
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When I finally accepted that I create my own reality, I was excited but scared.