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Aroused   /ərˈaʊzd/   Listen
Aroused

adjective
1.
Aroused to action.
2.
Emotionally aroused.  Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up.
3.
Brought to a state of great tension.  Synonym: wound up.
4.
Feeling great sexual desire.  Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on.
5.
Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.  Synonyms: ablaze, aflame.  "He was aflame with desire"
6.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion.  Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up.  "She was worked up about all the noise"


Arouse

verb
(past & past part. aroused; pres. part. arousing)
1.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).  Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise.  "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"
2.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken.
3.
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"
4.
Cause to be alert and energetic.  Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate.  "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
5.
Cause to become awake or conscious.  Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken.  "Please wake me at 6 AM."
6.
To begin moving,.  Synonym: stir.
7.
Stimulate sexually.  Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up.



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"Aroused" Quotes from Famous Books



... aroused once during the doctor's absence, but awoke almost immediately after their entrance, and the meeting between the father and son was ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... moved into the great darkness of Hecate that the gloom and passion of the priestess were aroused, and the constant warring of evil against goodness within awakened new aspirations for another experience when she might revolve in a circle of truth and ...
— Saronia - A Romance of Ancient Ephesus • Richard Short
... shield. Thinking it a shame to slay the fellow with the sword, he seized him, shattered him limb by limb, and flung him across into the house whence he had issued in his haste. This insult quickly aroused Gunn and Grim: they ran out by different side-doors, and charged Ole both at once, despising his age and strength. He wounded them fatally; and, when their bodily powers were quite spent, Grim, who could scarce muster a final gasp, and whose force was almost ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... key, which was attached by a cord to a slab of wood about the size of half a shingle. Upon one side of the slab were lettered in black paint the words HERE IT IS. Barbara's curiosity was aroused. ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the United States Department of Agriculture, were important factors in hastening the enactment of the present pure food law. He analyzed the various food products and made public the deceptions practiced by unscrupulous manufacturers. He aroused attention throughout the country by pointing out the necessity of a campaign of education, in order, as stated in Volume V, Part II, that the housekeeper might be able to determine the purity of every article of food offered for ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various


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