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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

... rainy and dry seasons and they fed him on beans, flesh of kids, and honey. Is there another king and nation as stupid in the world? They believed in the power of the old deceiver and in his charms, and look now, how that great fetish-man hangs from the elephant's trunk and is crying "Aka!" to arouse the pity of the white master. Where is his power? Where are his charms? Why does not any wicked Mzimu roar in his defense? Ah! What is this, their Mzimu? A clout of monkey skin and piece of wood hollowed through decay which the elephant will tread to pieces. Among ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... the Tuileries, Prince Schwarzenberg despatched a messenger to Vienna to announce the momentous news, which possibly would arouse more surprise than delight. "Count," he wrote to M. de Metternich, "in signing the marriage contract, while protesting that I was in no way clothed with power ad hoc, I believe that I have merely signed ...

— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand

... refer to these circumstances, but it is only within the past few days that the estate of the misguided man has been wound up, and the money he embezzled restored to its rightful owners; and it is better to make these remarks now than repeat them in the future, only to arouse painful memories in quarters where we should ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... younger"—oh, the deliciously aged air with which this creature of twenty-three referred to her youth—"I was singing at the Opera Comique in Paris, where Carlotta was starring, and I had the misfortune to arouse her jealousy. She is frightfully jealous, and get worse as she gets older. She swore to me that if I ever dared to appear at the Comique again she would have me killed. I laughed. I forgot the affair, but ...

— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett

... boy Jean fell overboard, but leisurely undressed in the water and swam to the bank, whence he was rescued by the canoe of the steamer. He was perfectly calm but Chikaia burst into tears and loudly blubbered. Very little indeed is sufficient to arouse emotionalism in some-of the natives, who are always laughing or crying, fortunately the former more ...

— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman

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