arouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce arouse in British English:
UK [əˈraʊz]
How to pronounce arouse in American English:
US [əˈraʊz]
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- Verb:
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- stop sleeping
- evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic
- cause to be alert and energetic
- cause to become awake or conscious
- to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
- stimulate sexually
Word Origin
- arouse
- arouse: [16] Shakespeare is the first writer on record to use arouse, in 2 Henry VI, 1593: ‘Loud howling wolves arouse the jades that drag the tragic melancholy night’. It was formed, with the intensive prefix a-, from rouse, a word of unknown origin which was first used in English in the 15th century as a technical term in falconry, meaning ‘plump up the feathers’.=> rouse
- arouse (v.)
- 1590s, "awaken" (transitive), from a- (1) "on" + rouse. Related: Aroused; arousing.
Example
- 1. In short , there was nothing to arouse suspicion .
- 2. That is liable to arouse the opposition of the banks and the national authorities .
- 3. Arouse interest with a compelling headline .
- 4. Donnie said the test definitely does aim to arouse anti-american sentimentamong young people like him .
- 5. In contrast , fathers tend to get the babies more excited and laughing , often playing physical games that startle or arouse them .