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electrified
| Main Entry: |
electrified
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having electricity |
| Synonyms: | live, wired |
| Main Entry: | thrilled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited |
| Synonyms: | animated, aroused, elated, electrified, fired up, inspired, moved, stirred, touched, worked up |
| Antonyms: | blasé, indifferent, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved |
| Main Entry: | stoked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thrilled |
| Synonyms: | animated, aroused, atingle, elated, electrified, excited, fired up, inspired, moved, stirred, touched*, worked up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turned-on |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thrilled |
| Synonyms: | animated, aroused, atingle, elated, electrified, excited, fired up, inspired, moved, stirred, touched*, worked up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surprise |
| Synonyms: | affect, alarm, astonish, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, bowl over, daze, dumbfound, electrify, flabbergast*, impress, move, perplex, put one away, shock, stagger, startle, strike, stun, stupefy, touch* |
| Notes: | amaze once meant 'alarm, terrify' but now means 'astonish'; surprise means 'meet with suddenly or without warning' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, entice |
| Synonyms: | agitate, alert, animate, awaken, call, challenge, electrify, enliven, fire up, foment, foster, goad, heat up, incite, inflame, instigate, kindle, move, provoke, rally, rouse, send, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on, wake up, waken, warm, whet, whip up, work up |
| Antonyms: | bore, calm, lull, quiet |
| Main Entry: | energize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | activate; give more life |
| Synonyms: | actify, activize, animate, arm, build up, electrify, empower, enable, enliven, excite, fortify, goose, innervate, inspirit, invigorate, jazz up, juice up, liven up, motivate, pep up, prime, pump up, put zip into, quicken, reinforce, start up, stimulate, strengthen, sustain, switch on, trigger, turn on, vitalize, work up, zap |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally |
| Antonyms: | deactivate, debilitate, sap, tire, weaken, weary |
| Main Entry: | excite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inspire; upset |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy, arouse, astound, awaken, bother, chafe, delight, discompose, disturb, electrify, elicit, energize, evoke, feed the fire, fire, fluster, foment, galvanize, goad, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intensify, irritate, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock, move, offend, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start, stimulate, stir up, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate, touch off, vex, wake up, waken, warm, whet, work up, worry |
| Antonyms: | bore, calm, compose, deaden, lull, moderate, pacify, quiet, repress, tranquilize |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, arouse |
| Synonyms: | animate, electrify, enliven, enthuse, exalt, galvanize, heighten, impassion, incite, inflame, inform, inspire, inspirit, intensify, intoxicate, irritate, provoke, quicken, rouse, stir, thrill |
| Antonyms: | bore, dull |
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