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AROUSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
Example:
she was worked up about all the noise
Synonyms:
aroused; emotional; excited; worked up
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Emotionally aroused
Synonyms:
aroused; stimulated; stirred; stirred up
Classified under:
Similar:
excited (in an aroused state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
Example:
he was aflame with desire
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Aroused to action
Example:
the aroused opposition
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
awakened (aroused or activated)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Feeling great sexual desire
Example:
feeling horny
Synonyms:
aroused; horny; randy; ruttish; steamy; turned on
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Brought to a state of great tension
Example:
all wound up for a fight
Synonyms:
aroused; wound up
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb arouse
Context examples:
This aroused the stranger’s attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the dæmon, as he called him, had pursued.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That aspect of consciousness devoted to affect or feeling; a strong feeling, aroused mental state, or intense state of drive or unrest directed toward a definite object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.
(Emotion, NCI Thesaurus)
So the Lion aroused himself and bounded forward as fast as he could go.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
A hostile or warlike attitude aroused by a real or supposed wrong.
(Anger, NCI Thesaurus)
A profound state of unconsciousness associated with depressed cerebral activity from which the individual cannot be aroused.
(Coma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
But the wolves were growing bolder, and the men were aroused more than once from their sleep.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
At length he aroused himself, and looked about the room until his eyes encountered mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It aroused him; he uncrossed his legs, sat erect, turned to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was not, however, until he sketched the mysteries of the central lake that the full interest and enthusiasm of the audience were aroused.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
