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deexcitate

deexcitate is the alternative form of deexcite.

Meaning of deexcite

Verb

deexcite (third-person singular simple present deexcites, present participle deexciting, simple past and past participle deexcited)

  1. To decrease the energy of something
  2. To move an atom etc to a lower energy level

Forms of deexcitate

third-person singular presentdeexcitates
present participledeexcitating
past participledeexcitated
pastdeexcitated

Origin of deexcitate

From de- + excitate.

Questions about deexcitate

What is deexcitate the alternative form of?
Deexcitate is the alternative form of deexcite.

Words near deexcitate in the dictionary

  1. Deetzian
  2. deev
  3. deevs
  4. deewan
  5. deewans
  6. deexcitate
  7. deexcitated
  8. deexcitates
  9. deexcitating
  10. deexcitation
  11. deexcitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deexcitate (page history and authors); deexcite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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