arouse
verb (used with object)
to stir to action or strong response; excite.
rearouse
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a word derived from
arouse.
Example Sentences
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He tried, with a few barbed insults, to rearouse a spark of enmity, but failed, to his own great discontent.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
The attraction which has roused them can, in contempt of all dignity, rearouse them suddenly, the nerves being exclusively concerned in their manifestation.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
