arouse

arouse
    v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
         pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: {arouse},
         {elicit}, {enkindle}, {kindle}, {evoke}, {fire}, {raise},
         {provoke}]
    2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
       [syn: {wake up}, {awake}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come
       alive}, {waken}] [ant: {dope off}, {doze off}, {drift off},
       {drop off}, {drowse off}, {fall asleep}, {flake out}, {nod
       off}]
    3: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by
       magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild
       birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
       [syn: {raise}, {conjure}, {conjure up}, {invoke}, {evoke},
       {stir}, {call down}, {arouse}, {bring up}, {put forward},
       {call forth}]
    4: cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate
       me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" [syn:
       {stimulate}, {arouse}, {brace}, {energize}, {energise}, {perk
       up}] [ant: {calm}, {de-energise}, {de-energize}, {sedate},
       {tranquilize}, {tranquillise}, {tranquillize}]
    5: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
       drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
       {awaken}, {wake}, {waken}, {rouse}, {wake up}, {arouse}]
       [ant: {cause to sleep}]
    6: to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping
       children began to stir" [syn: {arouse}, {stir}]
    7: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male
       audience" [syn: {arouse}, {sex}, {excite}, {turn on}, {wind
       up}]
    

Arouse \A*rouse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aroused}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Arousing}.] [Pref. a- + rouse.]
   To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in
   motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one
   from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.
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         Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse
         His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. --Cowper.
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         No suspicion was aroused.                --Merivale.
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145 Moby Thesaurus words for "arouse":
      aggravate, agitate, alarm, alert, anger, animate, annoy, awake,
      awaken, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, bring forth, bring out,
      bring to light, bristle, call forth, call out, call up, chafe,
      challenge, cry havoc, cry wolf, deduce, derive, drag out,
      draw forth, draw out, dynamize, educe, electrify, elicit, embitter,
      encourage, energize, enkindle, enliven, enrage, evoke, exasperate,
      excite, exhilarate, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame,
      feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, fly storm warnings, foment,
      foster, frenzy, fret, frighten, galvanize, get from, get out of,
      hearten, heat, heat up, huff, impassion, incense, incite, induce,
      inflame, infuriate, instigate, invigorate, irritate, jazz up,
      key up, kindle, knock up, lather up, light the fuse, light up,
      liven, madden, miff, move, nettle, obtain, overexcite, peeve,
      pep up, perk up, pique, procure, provoke, put up to, quicken,
      raise, raise up, rally, rankle, revive, rile, roil, rouse, ruffle,
      secure, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up,
      shake up, sic on, snap up, sound the alarm, sound the tocsin,
      spark, startle, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood,
      stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon forth,
      summon up, thrill, tickle, turn on, vex, vitalize, wake, wake up,
      waken, wangle, wangle out of, warm, warm the blood, warn, whet,
      whip up, winkle out, work into, work up, worm out, worm out of,
      zip up