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excitant

/ik-sahyt-nt, ek-si-tuhnt/US // ɪkˈsaɪt nt, ˈɛk sɪ tənt //UK // (ɪkˈsaɪtənt, ˈɛksɪtənt) //

激动人心的,激动人心,兴奋的人,兴奋的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : exciting; stimulating.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Physiology. something that excites; a stimulant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inimpulse

Examples

  • Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.

  • The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.

  • There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant.

  • A smell of musk is also given off by several plants: it is a sexual excitant in the musk-deer, the musk-sheep, and the crocodile.

  • The influence of dreams as an excitant of muscular movement will be hereafter discussed.