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Aroused   /ərˈaʊzd/   Listen
verb
Arouse  v. t.  (past & past part. aroused; pres. part. arousing)  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. "Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host." "No suspicion was aroused."



adjective
aroused  adj.  
1.
Emotionally stimulated.
Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up.
2.
Brought to a state of great psychological tension.
Synonyms: wound up.
3.
Stimulated to a state of awareness and interest. "The aroused opposition"
Synonyms: awakened.
4.
Sexually aroused; feeling a strong urge for sexual activity.
Synonyms: aflame, hot, turned on(predicate), horny.
5.
Excessively affected by emotion; of persons.
Synonyms: emotional, excited.






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"Aroused" Quotes from Famous Books



... couples, nor did the crews trouble themselves to do so, but took any woman they could lay hands on. Husbands pursued to save the wives, and were shot down, and a deadly spirit of hatred and terror against all that was white was aroused. ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... know you didn't actually promise me to speak, that day. But I knew you would when the time came! I knew that a man of power goes over all obstacles, once his sense of right is aroused! I knew—I never doubted it, that once you felt a thing to be right you would strike for it, with all your great strength—at ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington

... aroused. After a very long silence, she took the reins into her own hands. "Is Mr. Briggs in trouble?" she asked at a venture. Mr. Briggs was the only client she could think of, whose name began with ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... and tigers and elephants? Deprived in their infancy of their father, they were all tenderly brought up by me. How, also, did they live in the mighty forest, without seeing both their parents? From their infancy, O Kesava, the Pandavas were aroused from their beds by the music of conchs and drums and flutes. That they who while at home, used to sleep in high palatial chambers on soft blankets and skins of the Runku deer and were waked up in the morning by the grunt of elephants, the neighing of steeds, the clatter of car-wheels and the ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... sources he heard much of his ingratitude toward the man who had "made" him. He had failed in his efforts to secure the passage of several measures whose enactment was urged by the educational and philanthropic interests of the community, and this was plainly attributable to the animosity aroused by his desertion of the corporation bill. He had not finished with this last measure, which had been passed by Bassett's bi-partisan combination over the governor's veto. The labor organizations were ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson


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