verb
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
- usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- Stop sleeping.
- usage: "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
- Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.
- usage: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- Cause to be alert and energetic.
- usage: "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
- Cause to become awake or conscious.
- usage: "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
- (v.) ()
- Stimulate sexually.
- usage: "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
adjective
- Aroused to action.
- usage: "the aroused opposition"
- Emotionally aroused.
- synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up
- Brought to a state of great tension.
- usage: "all wound up for a fight"
- synonyms: wound up
- Feeling great sexual desire.
- usage: "feeling horny"
- Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
- usage: "his face all ablaze with excitement- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire"
- Of persons. ( excessively affected by emotion)
- usage: "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"
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