Meaning of AROUSE
| Pronunciation: | | u'rawz
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- [v] stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
- [v] cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
- [v] cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
- [v] call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- [v] stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
- [v] evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- [v] to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
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| | Synonyms: | | awake, awaken, brace, bring up, call down, call forth, come alive, conjure, conjure up, elicit, energise, energize, enkindle, evoke, evoke, fire, invoke, kindle, perk up, provoke, put forward, raise, raise, rouse, sex, stimulate, stir, stir, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, wind up |
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| | Antonyms: | | calm, cause to sleep, de-energise, de-energize, dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize | | |
| | See Also: | | affect, alter, anger, animate, ask for, bring around, bring back, bring round, bring to, bruise, call, catch some Z's, cathect, change, change state, create, create, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, draw, enliven, excite, fire up, heat, hurt, ignite, infatuate, inflame, injure, interest, invigorate, invite, kip, liven, liven up, log Z's, make, make, move, offend, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, prick, quicken, reanimate, reawaken, recreate, reinvigorate, rekindle, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, shake, shake up, shame, sleep, slumber, spite, stimulate, stir, stir up, sweep over, tempt, turn, untune, upset, vivify, wake, whelm, wound | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*rouse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aroused}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Arousing}.] [Pref. a- + rouse.]
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. --Cowper.
No suspicion was aroused. --Merivale.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggravate, agitate, alarm, alert, anger, animate, annoy, awake, awaken, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, bristle, call forth, call out, call up, chafe, challenge, cry havoc, cry wolf, deduce, derive, drag out, draw forth, draw out, dynamize, educe, electrify, elicit, embitter, encourage, energize, enkindle, enliven, enrage, evoke, exasperate, excite, exhilarate, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, fly storm warnings, foment, foster, frenzy, fret, frighten, galvanize, get from, get out of, hearten, heat, heat up, huff, impassion, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, invigorate, irritate, jazz up, key up, kindle, knock up, lather up, light the fuse, light up, liven, madden, miff, move, nettle, obtain, overexcite, peeve, pep up, perk up, pique, procure, provoke, put up to, quicken, raise, raise up, rally, rankle, revive, rile, roil, rouse, ruffle, secure, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up, shake up, sic on, snap up, sound the alarm, sound the tocsin, spark, startle, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon forth, summon up, thrill, tickle, turn on, vex, vitalize, wake, wake up, waken, wangle, wangle out of, warm, warm the blood, warn, whet, whip up, winkle out, work into, work up, worm out, worm out of, zip up |
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