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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

... people. The future is veiled but it may reveal some strange things to the world. What opportunities there are for leadership! If there were only some ways to "squelch" the fakers and arouse the dreamers! ...

— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley

... of joining with the Negroes did not seem to arouse the bitter resentment he expected. There even came whispers to his ears that he had sold out to the landlords, and there was enough truth in the report to scare him. Thus to both parties came the uncomfortable spectre of the black ...

— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois

... which Pericles displayed to the citizens the character of their state, and described to them the people of Athens, as it ought to be. He showed them their better selves, in order to raise them above themselves and arouse them to self-denial, to endurance, and to calm resolution. Full of a new vital ardor they returned home from the graves, and with perfect confidence confronted the destinies awaiting them in the future." ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

... the rugged seamen shed tears, and some broke into loud lamentations. Columbus tried in every way to soothe their distress, describing the splendid countries to which he expected to conduct them, promising them land, riches, and everything that could arouse their cupidity or inflame their imaginations; nor were these promises made for purposes of deception, for he certainly believed ...

— Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. - Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 • Various

... of an alien twang, that nothing was amiss, and were advised to return to their beds and resume their interrupted slumber, suspicion at last began to awake, and instead of returning to bed the citizens proceeded to arouse their households, and to hurriedly dress. Then a few of the more courageous ones—but these were very few—ventured to sally forth into the square to investigate more closely, only to find that each approach was guarded by a small band of ...

— The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer • Harry Collingwood

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