| excise | (noun) a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) | Synonyms: excise tax |
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| (verb) remove by cutting | - |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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| excision | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation |
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| (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, extirpation |
| (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excommunication |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, deletion |
| excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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| (noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
| excitable | (adjective) easily excited | - |
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| (adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: irritable |
| excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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| excitant | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitative, excitatory |
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| (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
| excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| excited | (adjective) in an aroused state | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: activated |
| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| excitedly | (adverb) with excitement; in an excited manner | - |
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| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| exciting | (adjective) creating or arousing excitement | - |
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| (adjective) stimulating interest and discussion | - |
| excitingly | (adverb) in an exciting manner | - |
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| excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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