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Defenition of the word arouse

    • Defenition of the word arouse

      • To stop sleeping.
      • To make someone stop sleeping.
      • call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
      • arouse sexually
      • 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."
      • evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"
      • cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"
      • stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
      • cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn''t stimulate"
      • 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"
      • call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
      • stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
      • stop sleeping
      • cause to become awake or conscious
      • cause to be alert and energetic
      • summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
      • call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
      • stimulate sexually
      • to begin moving,

    Synonyms for the word arouse

      • awake
      • awaken
      • brace
      • bring up
      • call down
      • call forth
      • come alive
      • conjure
      • conjure up
      • elicit
      • energise
      • energize
      • enkindle
      • evoke
      • excite
      • fire
      • invoke
      • kindle
      • perk up
      • produce
      • provoke
      • put forward
      • raise
      • rouse
      • sex
      • stimulate
      • stir
      • stir up
      • turn on
      • wake
      • wake up
      • waken
      • wind up

    Similar words in the arouse

      • arouse
      • aroused
      • arouses

    Hyponyms for the word arouse

      • anathemise
      • anathemize
      • anger
      • animate
      • ask for
      • bedamn
      • beshrew
      • bless
      • bring around
      • bring back
      • bring round
      • bring to
      • bruise
      • call
      • cathect
      • curse
      • damn
      • discomfit
      • discompose
      • disconcert
      • draw
      • enliven
      • excite
      • fire up
      • heat
      • hurt
      • ignite
      • imprecate
      • infatuate
      • inflame
      • injure
      • interest
      • invigorate
      • invite
      • liven
      • liven up
      • maledict
      • offend
      • overcome
      • overpower
      • overtake
      • overwhelm
      • prick
      • quicken
      • reanimate
      • reawaken
      • recreate
      • reinvigorate
      • rekindle
      • renovate
      • repair
      • revive
      • revivify
      • shake
      • shake up
      • shame
      • spite
      • stimulate
      • stir
      • stir up
      • strike a chord
      • sweep over
      • tempt
      • touch a chord
      • untune
      • upset
      • vivify
      • wake
      • whelm
      • wound

    Hypernyms for the word arouse

      • affect
      • alter
      • change
      • change state
      • create
      • excite
      • make
      • modify
      • move
      • shake
      • shake up
      • stimulate
      • stir
      • turn

    Antonyms for the word arouse

      • 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

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