arouse
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(verb) call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
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Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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Related Words: anger, ask for, create, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, draw, excite, fire up, heat, hurt, ignite, infatuate, inflame, injure, interest, invite, make, offend, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, prick, rekindle, shake, shake up, shame, spite, stimulate, stir, stir up, sweep over, untune, upset, whelm, wound |
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(verb) arouse sexually |
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Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
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Related Words: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, tempt |
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(verb) to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" |
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Synonyms: stir |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me" |
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Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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Related Words: affect, animate, cathect, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, reinvigorate, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" |
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Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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Related Words: change state, turn |
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(verb) cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." |
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Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
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Related Words: alter, bring around, bring back, bring round, bring to, call, change, reawaken |
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(verb) evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance" |
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Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
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Related Words: create, make |
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