excite
verb (used with object)
to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of.
am exciting
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present progressiveof excite (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But I am exciting myself too much, though there is reason enough for it, as you will see further on.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
I have for some time had a project of this kind, and, with a view to it, I am exciting several of my friends to contribute their share.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans
While I do but justice to Mr. Irving by this statement, I feel the prejudice it does to myself in the unavailing regret I am exciting in the bosom of the reader.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
