arouse
1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (Freq. 14)
- arouse pity
- raise a smile
- evoke sympathy
• Syn:
elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire,
raise, provoke
• Derivationally related forms:
provocative (for: provoke), provocation (for: provoke), evocative (for: evoke), evocation (for: evoke), elicitation (for: elicit), arousal
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Hyponyms:
strike a chord, touch a chord, invite, ask for, draw,
rekindle, infatuate, prick, inflame, stir up, wake,
ignite, heat, fire up, stimulate, shake, shake up,
excite, stir, anger, upset, discompose, untune,
disconcert, discomfit, shame, hurt, wound, injure,
bruise, offend, spite, overwhelm, overpower, sweep over,
whelm, overcome, overtake, interest
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. stop sleeping (Freq. 3)
- She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
• Syn:
wake up, awake, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
• Ant:
fall asleep (for: wake up)
• Derivationally related forms:
wakening (for: waken), waker (for: wake), awakening (for: awaken), arousal
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Entailment:
sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic (Freq. 2)
- raise the specter of unemployment
- he conjured wild birds in the air
- call down the spirits from the mountain
• Syn:
raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, bring up, put forward, call forth
• Derivationally related forms:
evocation (for: evoke), invocation (for: invoke), conjurer (for: conjure), conjuration (for: conjure), conjuror (for: conjure), conjury (for: conjure), conjuring (for: conjure)
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Hyponyms:
curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize,
anathemise, imprecate, maledict, bless
• Verb Group:
provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. cause to be alert and energetic (Freq. 2)
- Coffee and tea stimulate me
- This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate
• Syn:
stimulate, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• Ant:
de-energise (for: energise), de-energize (for: energize), sedate (for: stimulate)
• Derivationally related forms:
energiser (for: energise), energizer (for: energize), energy (for: energize), energizing (for: energize), bracer (for: brace), stimulative (for: stimulate), stimulant (for: stimulate)
• Hypernyms:
affect
• Hyponyms:
cathect, animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify, invigorate,
reinvigorate, enliven, liven, liven up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
5. cause to become awake or conscious (Freq. 2)
- He was roused by the drunken men in the street
- Please wake me at 6 AM.
• Syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up
• Ant:
cause to sleep (for: awaken)
• Derivationally related forms:
arouser, arousal, rouser (for: rouse), awakening (for: awaken)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
reawaken, bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around, call
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
6. to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
stir
• Hypernyms:
move
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
7. stimulate sexually
- This movie usually arouses the male audience
• Syn:
sex, excite, turn on, wind up
• Derivationally related forms:
turn-on (for: turn on), sex (for: sex)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
• Hyponyms:
tempt
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to arouse Sue
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