arouse
/ə'rauz/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To stimulate or provoke a feeling, emotion, or response: To cause a particular feeling, thought, or reaction to emerge or become active.
- To awaken someone from sleep: To cause a sleeping person to become conscious.
- To stimulate to action or activity: To stir someone or something into a state of movement, alertness, or energy.
- To evoke or call forth something abstract: To summon or bring into existence, often something intangible like a memory or spirit.
Usage and Examples
- To stimulate a feeling or response:
- The speaker's passionate words aroused strong feelings of patriotism in the crowd.
- The unfair treatment aroused public sympathy for the victim.
- To awaken from sleep:
- The noise from the construction site aroused him from a deep sleep.
- She was aroused by the smell of fresh coffee.
- To stimulate to action or alertness:
- The manager's speech aroused the team to work harder.
- The cold shower helped to arouse him after the long night.
Advanced Usage
- "to arouse suspicion": To cause someone to become suspicious.
- His nervous behavior began to arouse suspicion among his colleagues.
- "to arouse interest/curiosity": To stimulate interest or curiosity.
- The mysterious headline was designed to arouse curiosity.
Variants and Related Words
- Arousal (n): The state of being aroused, especially emotional or physiological excitement.
- The film was criticized for its scenes of sexual arousal.
- Aroused (adj): Having been stirred into a state of feeling or activity.
- The aroused protesters gathered in the square.
Synonyms
- Stimulate: To encourage or incite activity or growth.
- Provoke: To stimulate or give rise to a reaction, typically a strong or unwelcome one.
- Awaken: To rouse from sleep; to cause to become active or aware.
- Evoke: To bring or recall a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind.
Phrasal Verbs
(The word 'arouse' is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meanings are typically expressed directly.)
Related Idioms
- "to arouse from slumber": (Formal/Literary) To awaken from sleep or inactivity.
- The new policy aims to arouse the industry from its slumber.
Verb
- stimulate sexually
- This movie usually arouses the male audience
- to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
- cause to become awake or conscious
- He was roused by the drunken men in the street
- Please wake me at 6 AM.
- cause to be alert and energetic
- Coffee and tea stimulate me
- This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- raise the specter of unemployment
- he conjured wild birds in the air
- call down the spirits from the mountain
- stop sleeping
- She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- arouse pity
- raise a smile
- evoke sympathy