Arouse
[ə'raʊz]
Definition
(verb.) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); 'arouse pity'; 'raise a smile'; 'evoke sympathy'.
(verb.) stimulate sexually; 'This movie usually arouses the male audience'.
(verb.) to begin moving, 'As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir'.
Typist: Sanford--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Incite, excite, animate, stimulate, warm, kindle, inspirit, provoke, instigate, awaken, raise, whet, stir up, wake up, summon up, set on, hurry on.
Checked by Bianca
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stir, excite, disturb, animate, wake_up, stimulate, alarm, provoke, cheer
ANT:Allay, assuage, mitigate, pacify, compose, moderate, still, quiet
Typist: Susan
Definition
v.t. and v.i. same as Rouse.—ns. Arouse Arous′al (rare).
Checker: Roland
Examples
- It would be difficult to find a human being less likely to arouse affection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We must arouse Esmeralda first, replied Clayton. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He suddenly seemed to arouse himself: the conviction of the reality of all this seized him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They now arouse a new meaning by inciting the one who hears or reads to rehearse imaginatively the activities in which the helmet has its use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This will anger the farmers, that will arouse the Catholics, another will shock the summer girl. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If she could but arouse her, their combined efforts might possibly avail to beat back the fierce and bloodthirsty intruder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Suddenly she aroused herself and exclaimed, But I'll shake it off. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Before I had reached the turning which led out of the square, my attention was suddenly aroused by the sound of a closing door behind me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The second time of asking this question, however, aroused him from his musings, and he answered at once. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was instantly aroused, and, with the two footmen, started off at once in search of the missing girl. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He knew that, her fears for him being aroused, she would be uneasy if he were out of her sight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It aroused him; he uncrossed his legs, sat erect, turned to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They alone are capable of giving ideas of relation, and of arousing the dormant energies of thought. Plato. The Republic.
- This precaution in attracting her attention was to avoid arousing the suspicions of her grandfather. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When they see any body with a clean shirt on, it arouses their scorn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Mabel