verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thrilling/dramatic/exciting climax
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In this scene, the play reaches its dramatic climax.
an exciting discovery
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The existence of the new solar system was a very exciting discovery.
arouse/provoke/excite controversy (= cause it )
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Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion.
be excited/thrilled/delighted etc at the prospect (of sth)
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I was excited at the prospect of going to Washington.
exciting possibilities
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The city offers many exciting possibilities for young people.
exciting
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We were to be her guardians. This was an exciting prospect.
exciting
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The match could not have been more exciting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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If those trains represented the top quality of Provincial's empire, there was much less to be excited about elsewhere.
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I want kids to have something they can be excited about .
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about .
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What am I getting excited about ?
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They were just passing through, so there was nothing to get excited about .
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This is about exciting kids through connections to careers.
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It was the first time that I got excited about my own ideas.
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But he was a joke; he was never anything to get excited about , even in the beginning.
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Nobody was as excited to see me as I'd expected.
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Angry that I have to witness this, as exciting as it seems.
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Katherine had been as excited as a child on Christmas morning.
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For the Utah delegates the non-session hours are about as exciting as late-night channel clicking between CSPAN2 and CSPAN1.
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I was as excited as the rest.
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Return to these pages for a shot of inspiration or direction. exciting as stale toast.
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This is exciting as long as there is a new team waiting when the old one disbands.
more
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Parents are probably more excited about the extension of the Isa to the youth market.
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By mid-July, the country will switch its attention away from Washington to the far more exciting games in Atlanta.
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The technician was more excited by the resulting effect than I was: I just thought it was a bit of fun.
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Patrice was more excited about the occasion than Lettie, mainly because initially, it had all been her idea.
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Even more exciting was the discovery of documents in languages never before known or imagined.
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She would be even more excited if she knew her basket included a dozen Snickers bars.
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I was more excited than I had ever been before.
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So why do we remember it as being so much more exciting than it was?
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And anyway, it wasn't the most exciting life after work.
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This is one of the most exciting days of my life.
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Most exciting , in some ways, was that individual Singers came to be recognized, after a time.
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Love was always the best, the most exciting , and she was the only one I wanted.
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In many fields of science the most exciting breakthroughs have come from serendipitous discoveries rather than from official strategies.
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This spray is the most exciting because a dramatic transformation usually occurs just before the oven is opened.
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At Black Mountain, both teachers and students flocked to the most exciting classes.
really
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Of course, when my friends finally find out, they were really excited .
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We get really excited when we get a chance to play these guys, good, bad or indifferent.
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I was really excited about it but it was certainly not glamorous.
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For a young kid, that was something really exciting , man.
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Joseph and David were really excited , but Father looked serious.
so
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I was so excited that I forgot I was going into a cage with a wild bird.
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He was so excited to be here.
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Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media, they try to use them all.
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I was so excited , I could not concentrate on my homework.
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He was so excited he seemed to vibrate with it.
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In many cases, applicants are so excited about the job offer that they grab it too quickly.
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She was so excited about the job that she never asked what the salary was.
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I had thought that Mrs Trowbridge would be so excited for me.
too
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I was too excited by the sight of all the beautiful objects that filled the room.
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He is too excited by his new idea.
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Even the Snotlings will fight as they are far too excited to care what they are doing.
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But don't get too excited just yet.
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He'd been excited too , dumb shit.
very
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I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students, Ian Moss.
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He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
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The second difference is that reality isn't very exciting , whereas Brookside, at its best, was very exciting indeed.
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He responded that he was very excited and knew he was going someplace special.
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The second difference is that reality isn't very exciting , whereas Brookside, at its best, was very exciting indeed.
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We are very excited , but not at the prospect of watching the movie.
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I remember being very excited by his round but he took it all calmly, quietening me down.
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The whole consumer and retailing area can be a very exciting area to invest in.
■ NOUN
idea
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I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students, Ian Moss.
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Some children are fortunate in that their parents or teachers provide an excited audience for their ideas and plot lines.
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He is too excited by his new idea .
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Some industry research shows that consumers are less excited about the idea than the companies.
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I think the most exciting idea is to launch an Earth-Moon solar sail race.
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It was the first time that I got excited about my own ideas .
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At once, he turned and sprang up the rocky path even faster, suddenly excited by the idea of being alone.
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Nothing is more exciting than seeing your ideas work in the marketplace.
interest
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He thought of Hugo's ability to excite interest , to stimulate thought.
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Hargreaves Quarries is expected to excite the most interest .
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The workshops are designed to encourage and excite an interest in the different possibilities of performance.
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The art of a good press release is to excite the editor's interest with the first sentence.
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Sir Denis Foreman, of Granada Television, excited a little more interest .
opportunity
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I was excited by opportunity and overwhelmed by possibilities.
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We really see it as an exciting opportunity .
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It is not: extinction has happened millions of times before and is an exciting opportunity for science.
possibility
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What excites Lévi-Strauss about the possibilities of structuralist analysis is its potential for a formalized analysis of meaning.
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Perhaps the most exciting possibility ... is the extension of this type of work to other systems besides sensory.
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The possibility of a new way of looking opens up exciting possibilities for the re-evaluation of many genres of photography.
prospect
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Sustainable development investments represented a variety of exciting prospects , but there were still relatively few practical opportunities for investment.
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He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
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I was excited about the prospect , but quickly realised that this was not the time to share my jovial mood.
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Though excited at the prospect of moving to Washington, she was also nervous.
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As the months went by, I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday.
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Personally, I was excited at the prospect of participating in a real blood-and-guts battle against a prohibitive odds-on favorite.
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I was excited at the prospect of living in Seoul again and writing about my native place full-time.
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Another exciting prospect for future power generation is terrestrial fusion power.
■ VERB
become
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The gathering mob is becoming wildly over-excited.
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At the beginning of the Aqaba crisis he had suddenly become excited .
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She went to Oxford, where she became excited about the silent history of ordinary people.
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And now the admiral became a trifle excited .
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As the months went by, I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday.
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Black people all over the South became excited at the thought of this new promised land.
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Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media, they try to use them all.
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As Pedro and I discussed it, he became very interested and excited about this type of career.
get
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Let's face it kids, you ain't likely to get very excited by a badly digitised, flickery screenshot.
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If I cut according to my cloth and didn't get excited at around thirty I would find myself miraculously Mister-Righted.
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It was the summer work that got me all excited about the law.
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Though he got excited at each new development in his investigations, he soon became disillusioned again.
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I actually get excited about it.
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How can students get excited about learning when they spend much of their time glued passively in their seats?
seem
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The only questions that seem to have excited the commentators are: is the recession over?
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She seemed as excited as I.. By the next day, the entire school knew because she had told everyone.
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Something seemed to have excited them, they'd found something on the foreshore.
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Fei Yen seemed flushed, excited by the ride, her eyes wide with enjoyment.
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They all seem to be excited about my allatostatin work.
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It seemed like an exciting adventure to me.
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Everyone here seems excited about it, and I pray fervently it will be loved by its readers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Arthur's enormous wealth excited the envy of his rivals.
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Being part of the crowd at a ball game had always excited me.
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Don't excite him - he needs his rest.
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Recent fossil finds in Africa have excited interest among palaeontologists.
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She excites me in a way that no other woman can.
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She was at a point in her life where her work didn't really excite her anymore.
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Some of those Internet chat rooms can get you pretty excited.
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The movie was okay, but it didn't excite me that much.
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The murder trial has excited a lot of public interest.
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The signal excites the neurons in the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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That's where the Arabs prohibited the import of jasmine because the scent depresses the men and excites the women.