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- Dictionaryarouse/əˈraʊz/
verb
- 1. evoke or awaken (a feeling, emotion, or response): "something about the man aroused the guard's suspicions" Similar Opposite
- 2. awaken (someone) from sleep: "she had been aroused from deep slumber" Similar Opposite
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AROUSE definition: 1. to cause someone to have a particular feeling: 2. to cause someone to feel sexual excitement 3…. Learn more.
1. : to awaken from sleep. was aroused from a deep sleep by a loud noise. 2. : to stimulate to action or to bodily readiness for activity : excite. a book that has aroused debate. 3. : to excite (someone) sexually : to cause sexual arousal in (someone) … girls whose perfume scent frightened him and aroused him. Elizabeth Berg. intransitive verb.
Definitions of arouse. verb. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) “ arouse pity” synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, pique, provoke, raise. see more. verb. 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.
Arouse definition: to stir to action or strong response; excite. See examples of AROUSE used in a sentence.
arouse. (əraʊz ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense arouses , present participle arousing , past tense, past participle aroused. 1. verb. If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
arouse something to make somebody have a particular feeling or attitude. to arouse somebody’s interest/curiosity/anger; Her strange behaviour aroused our suspicions. Fox hunting still succeeds in arousing a great deal of controversy.
1. to stir to action or strong response; excite: to arouse a crowd; to arouse suspicion. 2. to stimulate sexually. 3. to awaken; wake up. v.i. 4. to become awake or aroused. [1585–95; a - 3 + rouse 1, on the model of arise]