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arouse

English

  1. 🔊 call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
    “arouse pity”
  2. 🔊 stimulate sexually
    “This movie usually arouses the male audience”
  3. 🔊 to begin moving
    “As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir”
  4. 🔊 cause to be alert and energetic
    “Coffee and tea stimulate me”
  5. 🔊 stop sleeping
    “She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock”
  6. 🔊 cause to become awake or conscious
    “He was roused by the drunken men in the street”
  7. 🔊 summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
    “raise the specter of unemployment”

Similar words

wake up awake awaken wake come alive waken awaken wake waken rouse wake up stimulate brace energize energise perk up raise conjure conjure up invoke evoke stir call down bring up