arouse

Definitions


[əˈraʊz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- evoke or awaken (a feeling, emotion, or response)
(e.g: something about the man aroused the guard's suspicions)

- awaken (someone) from sleep
(e.g: she had been aroused from deep slumber)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century: from rouse, on the pattern of the pair of rise, arise




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