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excitement
verbs
cause/generate excitement
• The arrival of a stranger caused some excitement in the village.
hide/conceal your excitement
• He tried to hide his excitement, but his voice was shaking.
control/contain your excitement
• She could hardly control her excitement when I told her the news.
be trembling with excitement
(= to be shaking slightly because you are so excited )
• Her hands were trembling with excitement as she opened the letter.
somebody's excitement grows
(= it increases )
• Her excitement grew as the day of the wedding came nearer.
the excitement wears off
(= it gradually becomes less )
• The initial excitement of my new job was starting to wear off.
the excitement dies down
(= people stop feeling excited )
• The excitement after last month's elections is beginning to die down.
adjectives
great/enormous/tremendous excitement
• There is great excitement about the Pope's visit. • The news causes tremendous excitement.
growing/mounting excitement
• The children waited with growing excitement.
sheer excitement
(= a very strong feeling of excitement )
• Nothing can beat driving a racing car for sheer excitement.
real/genuine excitement
• A goal two minutes from the end provided the game's only genuine excitement.
nervous/restless excitement
(= a feeling of being worried and unable to relax )
• My nervous excitement increased with each passing minute.
intense excitement
(= a very strong feeling of excitement )
• I can still remember the intense excitement of going to see my first football match.
youthful/childlike excitement
• Her voice was full of youthful excitement.
phrases
be full of/filled with excitement
• They were full of excitement at the thought of meeting a real movie star.
a sense/feeling of excitement
• He woke up that morning with a feeling of excitement.
a state of excitement
• It seemed that the whole country was in a state of excitement.
an air of excitement
(= a general feeling of excitement among a group of people )
• There was a real air of excitement before the game.
a surge/buzz of excitement
(= a sudden feeling of excitement )
• As soon as he noticed her name on the list, a surge of excitement ran through him. • There is a buzz of excitement inside the stadium.
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noun ADJ. considerable, fierce, great, high, intense, tremendous | breathless, febrile, feverish, heady, wild | genuine, real, sheer | initial | sudden | growing, heightened, mounting | added, further | suppressed | nervous, restless | guilty | pleasurable | strange | vicarious The reader of adventure stories wants romance and vicarious excite | youthful | intellectual, physical, political, sexual QUANT. flicker, flurry, flush, frisson, ripple, surge She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song. VERB + EXCITEMENT be bubbling with, be filled with, be flushed with, be sick with, be trembling/tingling with, feel Her face was flushed with excitement. She was almost sick with excitement and apprehension. | cause, generate The news caused tremendous excitement among scientists. | conceal, control, hide, suppress He couldn't suppress the excitement in his voice. | add The element of risk just adds excitement. EXCITEMENT + VERB build up, grow, mount, rise The tension and excitement built up gradually all day. | die down, evaporate, wear off PREP. in ~ clapping her hands in excitement | ~ among The news has caused great excitement among scientists. | ~ at her excitement at the prospect of a new job | ~ of the excitement of meeting new people PHRASES an air of excitement There was an air of excitement about the place. | a feeling/sense of excitement, a fever/state of excitement
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