arouse - Similar and Opposite Words

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Verb

stop sleeping

Synonyms

• arouse
• awake
• awaken
• come alive
• wake
• wake up
• waken

More generic

• change state
• turn

Related

• catch some Z's
• kip
• log Z's
• sleep
• slumber

Verb

cause to become awake or conscious

Synonyms

• arouse
• awaken
• rouse
• wake
• wake up
• waken

More generic

• alter
• change
• modify

More specific

• bring around
• bring back
• bring round
• bring to
• call
• reawaken

Verb

cause to be alert and energetic

Synonyms

• arouse
• brace
• energise
• energize
• perk up
• stimulate

More generic

• affect

More specific

• animate
• cathect
• enliven
• invigorate
• liven
• liven up
• quicken
• reanimate
• recreate
• reinvigorate
• renovate
• repair
• revive
• revivify
• vivify

Verb

summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Synonyms

• arouse
• bring up
• call down
• call forth
• conjure
• conjure up
• evoke
• invoke
• put forward
• raise
• stir

More generic

• call up
• summon

More specific

• anathemise
• anathemize
• bedamn
• beshrew
• bless
• curse
• damn
• imprecate
• maledict

Related

• call forth
• evoke
• kick up
• provoke

Verb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Synonyms

• arouse
• elicit
• enkindle
• evoke
• fire
• kindle
• provoke
• raise

More generic

• create
• make

More specific

• anger
• ask for
• bruise
• discomfit
• discompose
• disconcert
• draw
• excite
• fire up
• heat
• hurt
• ignite
• infatuate
• inflame
• injure
• interest
• invite
• offend
• overcome
• overpower
• overtake
• overwhelm
• prick
• rekindle
• shake
• shake up
• shame
• spite
• stimulate
• stir
• stir up
• strike a chord
• sweep over
• touch a chord
• untune
• upset
• wake
• whelm
• wound

Verb

stimulate sexually

Synonyms

• arouse
• excite
• sex
• turn on
• wind up

More generic

• excite
• shake
• shake up
• stimulate
• stir

More specific

• tempt

Verb

to begin moving

Synonyms

• arouse
• stir

More generic

• move

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