arouse
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- v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
arouse pity - v stop sleeping
- v summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- v cause to be alert and energetic
- v cause to become awake or conscious
- v to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
- v stimulate sexually
This movie usually arouses the male audience
- As an experiment in "black ecumenism," the committee will attempt to arouse Negro churches to a keener awareness of their own responsibilities.
- He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion.
- They argue that to promote equal rights for women and a role for women in Afghan government and society amounts to cultural imperialism, destined to arouse the animosity of Muslims .