arouse
Verb
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subtypes:
- strike a chord, touch a chord - evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
- ask for, invite - increase the likelihood of
- draw - elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- rekindle - arouse again
- infatuate - arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
- prick - to cause a sharp emotional pain
- fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake - arouse or excite feelings and passions
- excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- excite - arouse or elicit a feeling
- anger - make angry
- discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset - cause to lose one's composure
- shame - cause to be ashamed
- bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound - hurt the feelings of
- overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
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is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
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subtypes:
- anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- bless - give a benediction to
same as: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir -
is a type of: affect - act physically on; have an effect uponsubtypes:
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subtypes:
- reawaken - awaken once again
- bring around, bring back, bring round, bring to - return to consciousness
- call - rouse somebody from sleep with a call
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsame as: stir
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subtypes: tempt - try to seduce
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