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arouse [uh-rouz] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
arouse [uh-rouz]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: excite, entice
Synonyms: agitate, alert, animate, awaken, call, challenge, electrify, enliven, fire up, foment, foster, goad, heat up, incite, inflame, instigate, kindle, move, provoke, rally, rouse, send, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on, wake up, waken, warm, whet, whip up, work up
Antonyms: bore, calm, lull, quiet
Main Entry: actuate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start a function or action, motivate
Synonyms: activate, animate, arouse, cause, drive, egg on, energize, excite, fire up, impel, incite, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, key up, mobilize, motivate, move, prompt, propel, put up to, quicken, rouse, spur, stimulate, turn on, work into lather, work up
Antonyms: impede, stop
Main Entry: agitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disturb, trouble someone
Synonyms: alarm, argue, arouse, bug up, bug*, burn up, confuse, craze*, debate, discompose, disconcert, discuss, dispute, disquiet, distract, disturb, egg on, examine, excite, ferment, flurry, fluster, get to, incite, inflame, make flip, move, perturb, psych, push buttons, rouse, ruffle, spook, stimulate, stir, trouble, turn on, unhinge, upset, ventilate, work up, worry
Antonyms: calm, not bother, quiet, soothe
Example Sentences
  • Ambien, surprisingly, has even been used to arouse people in a persistent vegetative state.
  • They arouse controversy only because the few women miffed at being kept out elevate their grievances to the status of politics.
  • And the curiosity arouse naturally about the peculiarities of who is teaching.
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Main Entry: anger
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make someone mad; become mad
Synonyms: acerbate, affront, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, arouse, bait, blow up, boil over, boil, bristle, burn, burn up, chafe, craze*, cross, displease, egg on, embitter, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, gall, get mad, get on one's nerves, goad, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, lose one's temper, madden, make sore, miff, nettle, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, raise hell, rankle, rant, rave, rile, ruffle, seethe, steam up, stew, stir up, tempt, umbrage, vex
Antonyms: calm, forbear, make happy, quiet, soothe
Main Entry: animate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring to life
Synonyms: activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform, inspire, inspirit, instigate, invigorate, kindle, liven, make alive, move, quicken, revive, revivify, rouse, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vitalize, vivify
Antonyms: deaden, discourage, kill
Main Entry: awake
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become or make aware
Synonyms: activate, alert, animate, arouse, awaken, call forth, enliven, excite, incite, kindle, provoke, revive, stimulate, stir up, vivify
Antonyms: deaden, lull
Main Entry: awaken
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make conscious or alert
Synonyms: activate, animate, arouse, awake, call, enliven, excite, fan, incite, kindle, pile out, provoke, rally, revive, rise and shine, roll out, rouse, show a leg, stimulate, stir up, turn out, vivify, wake
Antonyms: deaden, go to sleep, hypnotize
Main Entry: call
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: yell declaration
Synonyms: announce, arouse, awaken, bawl, bellow, cry, cry out, exclaim, hail, holler*, hoot, howl, proclaim, roar, rouse, scream, screech, shout, shriek, vociferate, waken, whoop, yawp, yoo hoo, yowl
Antonyms: conceal, listen, refrain
Main Entry: challenge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dispute, question
Synonyms: accost, arouse, ask for, assert, beard, brave, call for, call out, claim, confront, cross, dare, defy, demand, denounce, exact, face down, face off, face the music, fly in the face of, hang in, impeach, impose, impugn, inquire, insist upon, investigate, invite competition, make a point of, make a stand, object to, provoke, query, reclaim, require, search out, stand up to, stick it out, stimulate, summon, tax, test, throw down the gauntlet, try, vindicate
Antonyms: agreement, answer, decision, victory
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