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1. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
   "his face all aroused with excitement";
   - ablaze, aflame
    
2. Feeling great sexual desire
   "feeling aroused";
   - steamy, turned on
    
3. Aroused to action
   "the aroused opposition"
    
4. Emotionally aroused
   - stimulated, stirred, stirred up
    
5. Brought to a state of great tension
   "all aroused for a fight";
   - wound up
    
6. (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
   "he would become aroused over nothing at all";
   - emotional, excited, worked up

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   "arouse pity";
   - elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
    
2. Stop sleeping
   - wake up, awake, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
    
3. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "arouse the spectre of unemployment";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, bring up, put forward, call forth
    
4. Cause to be alert and energetic
   - stimulate, brace, energize, energise [Brit], perk up
    
5. Cause to become awake or conscious
   - awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up
    
6. To begin moving
   - stir
    
7. To evoke sexual feelings
   "This movie usually arouses the male audience";
   - sex, excite, turn on, wind up

See also: agitated, awakened, excited, passionate, sexy [informal], tense, wrought-up

Type of: affect, alter, call up, change, change state, create, excite, make, modify, move, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, summon, turn

Encyclopedia: Aroused