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Arouse

verb

(past & past part. aroused; pres. part. arousing)

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise. "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"

Stop sleeping. Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken.

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir. "He conjured wild birds in the air" , "Call down the spirits from the mountain"

Cause to be alert and energetic. Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate. "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"

Cause to become awake or conscious. Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken. "Please wake me at 6 AM."

To begin moving,. Synonym: stir.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up.

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"Arouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... Gervaise had waited for Lantier in the room of this woman rather than face the men who were eating. The concierge said she had just been round the corner to arouse a lazy fellow who had promised to do some work and then went on to speak of one of her lodgers who had come in the night before with some woman and had made such a noise that every one was disturbed ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... thought and said in the world." He recognized, candidly and fully, the claims of the physical sciences, and their use and value in Education. For example, in advising about the instruction of a little girl, in whom her teacher wished to arouse "perception," he said, "You had much better take some science—(botany is perhaps the best for a girl) and, choosing a good handbook, go through it regularly with her.... The verification of the laws of grammar, in the examples furnished ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... Redmond's position, the result was to engender in Ireland a temper which made settlement almost impossible. No British Minister's word would in future be accepted for anything; and any Irishman who attempted to improve relations between the countries was certain to arouse anger and ...

— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

... furtive eyes. Somehow she fitted into the scene, and I saw my companion gazing at her almost with horror, as she flitted about us silently as a specter. I endeavored to talk, while eating heartily, for I was hungry, but found it difficult to arouse Mrs. Bernard to any response, and she merely toyed with her food. In despair I turned to the other, hopeful that a question or two might dissolve ...

— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish

... that Chinese scholarship will be in any way advanced by this publication. The Lectures, slight in themselves, were never meant for advanced students, but rather to draw attention to, and possibly arouse some interest in, a subject which will occupy a larger space in the future than in the ...

— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

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