noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mood of optimism/despair/excitement etc
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There is a new mood of optimism.
a pitch of excitement/excellence/perfection etc (= a high level of excitement etc )
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He screamed at her in a pitch of fury.
a thrill of excitement/anticipation/pleasure
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As the plane took off, she felt a thrill of excitement.
alight with excitement/pleasure/laughter etc
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Jed’s face was alight with excitement.
be beside yourself with anger/excitement/rage etc
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Mom and Dad will be beside themselves with worry.
be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc
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Your mum’s bursting with pride for you.
childlike delight/wonder/excitement
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The sight filled her with childlike excitement.
detect a note of sarcasm/irony/excitement etc
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Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your voice?
full of excitement/energy/hope etc
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Lucy was a happy child, always full of life .
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He was full of praise for the work of the unit.
generate excitement/interest/support etc
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The project generated enormous interest.
sense sb’s fear/excitement/reluctance etc
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Luke paused and she sensed his reluctance to continue.
vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc
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the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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It was filthy work, but full of atavistic excitement and the promise of financial reward.
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People think my job's full of excitement .
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After my run at Dortmund I was full of excitement and confidence.
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It was like a vast playground to me, full of excitement and interest.
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You are afraid and full of excitement at thoughts of what you might find.
great
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When his letter finally came, Mrs Fairfax announced with great excitement that he was planning a house-party at Thornfield.
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The afternoon meeting ended in an atmosphere of great excitement .
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There was no great excitement about swimming either.
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The people packed up their tepees, food, and equipment in great excitement .
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His few short visits to the village caused great excitement .
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Guks's return caused great excitement .
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Sometimes there were tears, sometimes great excitement at the appointments.
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The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement .
high
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The new team will find financial markets in a high state of excitement and looking forward to a cut in interest rates.
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Instead I was filled with a high , sweet excitement .
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Jane was in a state of high excitement .
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Do you prefer exercise that has a high level of excitement attached to it? 10.
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But for all of this high and anxious excitement , they appeared to fall between unsteady stools.
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Preston drove back to the cottage in a state of high nervous excitement but with some serious reservations.
little
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Her breath caught as a strange little frisson of excitement slid from her throat to her toes at the thought.
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I have to confess to a little thrill of excitement as I pulled out next morning.
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Edward put his arm around Sally and little prickles of excitement started deep inside her.
nervous
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The amount of nervous excitement , and consequent prostration, exhaustion, and disorder they cause is fearful.
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Even an outsider felt it, the nervous excitement that translated into endless, purposeful motion.
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There may be marked nervous excitement and prostration.
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Preston drove back to the cottage in a state of high nervous excitement but with some serious reservations.
wild
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She sprang off the bed and reached the window in a swoop of wild excitement .
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The multitudes had come from their camps of long confinement and were wild with excitement .
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The crowd was wild with excitement .
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The press and public went wild with excitement .
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The bickerings were forgotten in the scenes of wild excitement that greeted the Cup in Huddersfield.
■ VERB
add
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But a dry day would bring bigger crowds and add to the excitement of the vital third round of the tournament.
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For added excitement , the haul roads are left-hand drive.
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He says there doesn't have to be, but it adds to the excitement !
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My urban surroundings only added to the excitement .
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It all adds up to rare excitement about a rare show.
bring
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The pursuit of desire brings with it intense excitement and satisfaction when it is reached.
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I think I could bring excitement back to the game.
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But 1936 brought its political excitements in other ways.
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They love having an opponent who brings such excitement and drama to their game.
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Most of all I am eagerly awaiting his return to Wimbledon this summer to bring more fun and excitement to the fortnight.
cause
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The picture that had caused Mr Brownlow's excitement was taken down from the wall, and was not mentioned again.
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What caused excitement were the variables: size and condition of tooth; age and strength of the victim.
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The paper did not cause much excitement and Rous turned to other subjects.
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Guks's return caused great excitement .
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My presence usually causes some excitement .
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And so news of a new addition to the facilities at the Sobell wall in Holloway caused much excitement .
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The detection of single atoms in this way has caused great excitement because of its application in many areas.
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My passport causes excitement and a soldier thumbs through the pages.
contain
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Deliberately, she chattered and laughed, not trying to contain her excitement .
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Meanwhile, Steve Jobs could hardly contain himself with excitement .
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He found names in the catalogue that made him pause with a strange contained excitement .
create
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In two minutes we had created the excitement , fun and audience involvement that set the atmosphere for the afternoon.
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A central thrust of management will be to create excitement about the future of the company and about belonging to the company.
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The event had created great excitement at all levels of society and was eagerly anticipated.
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Alec learned later that Durkin had created panic and excitement driving through the towns and villages of Roscommon and east Mayo.
experience
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I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time.
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Within the hall, simulators allow visitors to experience the excitement of a bobsled run or ski jump.
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Suddenly, I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement .
feel
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She felt heady with excitement , and her skin tingled.
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An average student, he felt the pull and excitement of the Army, so he left college to enlist in 1942.
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I can already feel the old excitement coming back.
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But despite the general quiet of the anchorage, one felt the excitement permeating the entire fleet.
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Callaghan felt his pent-up excitement go flat.
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If it had been alive, it would have felt excitement , but such an emotion was wholly beyond its powers.
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And, though she did not want to, again she felt a shiver of excitement .
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I could feel excitement in my stomach - a rising, tingling rush.
fill
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I remember being filled with such excitement I could hardly bear it.
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I was filled with excitement at the prospect of making some connection with my ancestors.
flush
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His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement .
generate
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These strange and beautiful candlesticks balance motionlessly on their needle-sharp points, generating excitement by the very fragility of their inertia.
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The construction, which took a few months, generated increasing excitement .
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Instead, it generated excitement and renewed vigour.
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It generates a lot of excitement , and is brimming with ideas.
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Often a race against time, such programs can generate much excitement .
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BThat Pratt continues to generate excitement is understandable.
provide
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The controversy which surrounded Robertson's goal attempt for Hearts three minutes from the end provided the only genuine excitement .
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Though not yet championship caliber, it at least provides some sense of excitement surrounding the Super Bowl.
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A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement .
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Speculation on their colourful lives and enormous bank balances have provided much needed excitement in a sea of bland, beige tailoring.
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Projects should stretch people, not overload them; projects should provide excitement on the job, not stress and strain.
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It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family - people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement .
remember
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But I remember the excitement in my children's faces.
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I still remember the excitement , pride and even power I felt when my customers paid me for my work.
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I well remember the excitement of seeing the very first breeding pair on Yell back in the 1950s.
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I can still remember my excitement as I opened the box.
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I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn's.
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But how many can remember the feverish excitement when it first opened?
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I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun.
tremble
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Her fingers trembling with excitement , she fastened it around her neck.
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When I got there, my daughter greeted me with trembling excitement .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flicker of emotion/uncertainty/excitement etc
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I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem.
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Ruins, she thought, with a flicker of excitement.
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Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
a flush of anger/embarrassment/excitement etc
flushed with success/excitement/pleasure etc
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His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
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She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
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The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
hum of excitement/approval etc
rush of anger/excitement/gratitude etc
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It was a habit she disliked it made her feel fat-but she remembered a quick rush of gratitude.
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It was from Gay, and she felt a rush of gratitude.
spark of interest/excitement/anger etc
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But as she looked at him, a tiny spark of anger flared within her.
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By the time he was admitted he had lost whatever spark of interest he had felt.
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Despite the quiet session, sparks of excitement could still be found in the market.
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If he showed a spark of interest in them, Maude would be happy for the day.
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The unexplainable spark of excitement, at being in his presence again, shocked her.
tingle with excitement/fear/anticipation etc
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I jerked back, tingling with fear, feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast.
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I remember walking into the board room tingling with fear and energy.
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My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll.
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We were tingling with anticipation and at one with our surroundings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gerry found it difficult to sleep after all the excitements of the day.
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He missed the excitement of working with so many intelligent people.
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If you're looking for excitement , you won't find it here.
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In the stands, the crowd was shouting with excitement .
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The biggest excitement of the day was when Joe accidentally set off the fire alarm.
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There's an atmosphere of tremendous excitement here in the stadium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually this was done in double-quick time but I can never forget the excitement and the terror of that night.
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Ever since the visit she had longed to be part of the artistic excitement of the city.
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His excitement and dedication were transparent and touching.
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His few short visits to the village caused great excitement .
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It was a marvellous sort of excitement , like being young again.
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On off days he could sound tired, and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length.
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Political institutions are built to deliver power not excitement , and Super Tuesday accomplished exactly what the people who planned it intended.
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What caused excitement were the variables: size and condition of tooth; age and strength of the victim.