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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 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
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... 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
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... 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")
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... 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
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... 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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