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aroused   (TTS Sound)

The verb arouse has 7 senses

• arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke -- (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy")


• wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken -- (stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock")


• raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth -- (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")


• stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up -- (cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate")


• awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse -- (cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM.")


• arouse, stir -- (to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir")


• arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up -- (stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience")

The adj aroused has 6 senses

• aroused -- (aroused to action; "the aroused opposition")


• stimulated, stirred, stirred up, aroused -- (emotionally aroused)


• aroused, wound up -- (brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight")


• aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on -- (feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny")


• ablaze, aflame, aroused -- (keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire")


• aroused, emotional, excited, worked up -- ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise")