rouse
verb (used with object)
to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc..
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am trying tonic treatment, Emily; I am showing you a real danger; I am rousing you to flee from it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various