excite

excite (one) about (something)

To cause one to feel enthusiastic about something, especially in anticipation of participating in it. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "excite" and "about." Despite my best efforts, I still haven't been able to excite my students about trigonometry.
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excite (something) in (one)

To stimulate a particular feeling, interest, etc. in someone. I'm afraid of flying, so learning that my new job requires me to travel by plane excited terror in me. Going to the museum as a kid really excited a love of dinosaurs in me
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

excite someone about something

to stimulate someone about something. I thought our vacation stories would excite her about going, but they did not. She was excited about the trip to Moscow.
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excite something in someone

to arouse something in someone; to arouse someone with something. The horror movie excited a lot of fear in Mike. The smell of jasmine in the warm air excited a romantic streak in me.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • angle
  • angling
  • orient
  • orient to
  • orient to (something)
  • spiff up
  • spiffed up
  • involved with
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Spink, Bateman, and Jansen (1999) conducted an interactive survey of over three hundred Excite users and found that many had conducted two searches or three or more related searches using the Excite search engine over time when seeking information on a particular topic.
Web search: emerging patterns
Excite@Home was formed through the merger of the portal/search engine Excite with AtHome Corporation, producer of cable-based Internet access reaching an estimated 67 million homes.
Excite@Home and FAST's 'Alltheweb.com' Aim to Plug the Web Search Engine Gap
To nd out more about the Vauxhall Astra Excite and limited edition, or to book a test drive, visit the retailer at Coopies Way, Morpeth NE61 6JN.
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Toshiba's Excite Tablets to Debut with Tegra 4 Processors on 25 June
Prizes were presented to each pupil by the chair of Liverpool's Education Committee, Cllr Richard Marbrow, assisted by Sunny, the EXCITE mascot.
Graduating to success; Education Action Zones
As for the Excite portal, traffic reached 89 million daily page views in September 1999.
Excite@Home Loses Nearly Half a Billion in Q3 >By Rachel Chalmers
Mr John Swingewood, BT Internet and Multimedia director, said: "Taking a 50 per cent share in Excite UK further extends our reach into the important advertising and transactional sectors.
Exciting times as BT goes on a pounds 6m surf
AltaVista, Excite and Lycos, for example, can search by domain and URL, and even find pages containing a link to a specified URL.
Seek and ye shall find
"You might say Excite has made an art of striking deals where there's some component of friend and some component of foe," Excite president Mr George Bell said of the agreement.
Enemies team up in net profit search
For those of you with limited hard drive space, Excite Live!
All the news that's fit to transmit: Internet information services deliver personalized news
Shunji Kishimoto of Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba and his colleagues have shown that in gold atoms, an electron jumping between two widely separated energy levels can release enough energy to excite the nucleus.
Electrons get a crack at the nucleus
THE British arm of Excite has been left stranded after the US parent company Excite@home went bust.
Kelly's i: Keeping you up to speed on the net: NET NEWS
Excite UK Ltd, a joint venture between British Telecommunications Plc and US-based Excite@Home, has launched a new unified messaging service designed to enable Internet users in Britain to retrieve e-mail, fax or voicemail messages through a single online location.
Excite UK launches unified messaging service
Excite@Home plans to focus its European media business on the investments it holds inExcite UK Ltd, a joint venture with British Telecommunications Plc, and in Excite Italia, its joint venture with Tiscali.
Excite@Home to shut down part of European media operations
Excite@Home has launched Excite Inbox, its new, free web-based e-mail service that enables users to manage all their e-mail, fax and voicemail communications in one place, at http://inbox.excite.com.
Excite@Home launches new e-mail service