arouse

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (synset 201763170)
   "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
   is a type of: create, make - make or cause to be or to become
   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
   same as: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
2. Stop sleeping (synset 200018519)
   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
   entail: catch some z's, kip, log z's, sleep, slumber - be asleep
   is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
   same as: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken
3. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic (synset 201633150)
   "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
   is a type of: call up, summon - cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
   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
   verb group: call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke - evoke or provoke to appear or occur
4. Cause to be alert and energetic (synset 200022679)
   "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
   is a type of: affect - act physically on; have an effect upon
   subtypes:

   • cathect - inject with libidinal energy
   • animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify - give new life or energy to
   • invigorate, reinvigorate - impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
   • animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up - make lively
   same as: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate
5. Cause to become awake or conscious (synset 200018806)
   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   subtypes:

   • reawaken - awaken once again
   • bring around, bring back, bring round, bring to - return to consciousness
   • call - rouse somebody from sleep with a call
   same as: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken
6. To begin moving (synset 201898157)
   "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
   is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
   same as: stir
7. Stimulate sexually (synset 201766135)
   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
   is a type of: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
   subtypes: tempt - try to seduce
   same as: excite, sex, turn on, wind up

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