arouse
- to stir to action or strong response; excite: to arouse a crowd; to arouse suspicion.
- to stimulate sexually.
- to awaken; wake up: The footsteps aroused the dog.
- to awake or become aroused: At dawn the farmers began to arouse.
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Contemporary Examples of arouse
She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians.
She was more interested in the way fashion played out in popular culture, they way it could arouse, empower and provoke.
But while horror films excite and arouse, they “often leave people feeling nervous and unsettled,” despite any catharsis.
The idea that women must be cloaked and hidden from display lest they arouse male lust is not unique to Islam.
A mosque is neither factory nor fortress: Why should it arouse either envy or fear?
Historical Examples of arouse
In fact, they are so common as to arouse little or no wonder in the minds of the people.
Riders to the SeaJ. M. Synge
Arouse all together, mes enfants, under pain of my displeasure.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
She was gowned, too, with a chic nicety to arouse the envy of all less-fortunate women.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
In it we do not know the evil passions which ambition and strife are said to arouse.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Let us arouse the people; hitherto we have depended too much upon the nobles.
Leila, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
arouse
- (tr) to evoke or elicit (a reaction, emotion, or response); stimulate
- to awaken from sleep