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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
arouse
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arouse a feeling (=cause it)
▪ The music aroused a feeling of calm within him.
arouse opposition/arouse the opposition of sb (=make someone feel disagreement)
▪ A plan to build on farm land aroused local opposition.
arouse opposition/arouse the opposition of sb (=make someone feel disagreement)
▪ A plan to build on farm land aroused local opposition.
arouse resentment (=make people feel it)
▪ The terms of his contract aroused deep resentment among the other players.
arouse sb's curiosity (=make someone want to know about something)
▪ New people in the village always aroused our curiosity.
arouse suspicion (=make people think that someone has done something wrong)
▪ How was he able to kill his victims without arousing suspicion?
arouse/generate enthusiasmformal (= make people feel enthusiastic)
▪ The changes to the timetable failed to arouse enthusiasm amongst the staff.
arouse/generate/attract interest (=make people interested)
▪ This extraordinary story has aroused interest in many quarters.
arouse/provoke anger (also stir up angerinformal) (= make people angry)
▪ The referee’s decision provoked anger among the fans.
arouse/provoke anxiety (=cause it)
▪ The presence of Indian troops near the border has aroused considerable anxiety in neighbouring Pakistan.
arouse/provoke/excite controversy (=cause it)
▪ Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion.
arouse/stir passions (=cause strong feelings in people)
▪ The case aroused passions throughout the country.
raise/arouse/draw sb’s ire (=make someone angry)
▪ The proposal has drawn the ire of local residents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anger
▪ In Ionia, Pausanias' arrogance and lust for gold and women aroused widespread anger.
▪ Similarly the threat of a loss arouses anxiety and actual loss causes sorrow, while both situations are likely to arouse anger.
▪ Friendly fire is included; that's the euphemism which aroused such anger at the Gulf War inquest in Oxford this spring.
▪ They are fascinating and frightening; they arouse anger and they are defiant.
▪ This oppressive measure on the part of the authority aroused much anger among writers.
▪ Such arrogance always aroused the anger of the gods.
▪ Performed in Shiraz it aroused enormous anger and offence.
anxiety
▪ The Conservative government of the 1980s has aroused profound anxiety by its policies of centralization and executive control.
▪ Such increases could renew corporate efforts to cut medical costs by passing them on to employees, thus further arousing consumer anxiety.
▪ Disablement arouses severe anxieties and strong resentment in people.
▪ The more you try to control something that can not be controlled, the more your body is aroused, causing anxiety.
▪ His presence in restricted areas had aroused the anxiety of the Soviets.
concern
▪ It has aroused concern because of the resulting increase in the burden of taxation and reduction in individual choice.
controversy
▪ Whether that will arouse great controversy among any but the most convinced monarchists is doubtful.
▪ Apart from Mary, however, black images are too rare to arouse much comment or controversy.
▪ The introduction of the community charge aroused considerable controversy around three main issues.
▪ It aroused as much controversy as any Alsop column up to that time.
▪ As might be expected, such a policy aroused enormous controversy and opposition, and was later modified.
▪ Political Pluralism and the Media Media analysis often arouses controversy, not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications.
▪ The justification for Gloucester's assumption of power confused contemporaries and has continued to arouse controversy.
▪ What were the central features of this democracy, which aroused such controversy at the time, and still provokes debate today?
curiosity
▪ My curiosity about beekeeping was aroused when I read that Sherlock Holmes story.
▪ No wonder my curiosity was aroused.
▪ In the middle, a tall negro. Curiosity aroused, the rider turned his horse and rode towards them.
▪ His curiosity is aroused by my problem, and he gives me some suggestions to follow up in the library in Asnieres.
▪ But Stevens' curiosity was aroused.
▪ As a result of the huge curiosity our stance aroused, we had to continuously explain and defend our politics.
emotion
▪ But once in a while, when her veil drops, it arouses other emotions.
▪ They were a device to arouse emotions.
▪ Which situations tend to arouse these emotions in you?
▪ Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily? she thought hazily.
▪ This national event aroused such emotions and nostalgia that people everywhere responded with magnificent donations.
▪ Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large.
▪ The setting up of the agency has aroused strong emotions, but there are widespread misunderstandings about it.
▪ There were tackles which brought the Aberdeen support to their feet in acclamation, and aroused different emotions in the rest.
enthusiasm
▪ Sixth-form colleges did not arouse enthusiasm in the Department of Education and Science of 1965.
▪ A plan is taking shape, and it arouses obvious enthusiasm in some quarters.
▪ Personenkreis 1-3 is not exactly the type of play that is guaranteed to arouse the enthusiasm of the critics.
expectations
▪ The government's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation.
▪ Kennedy and Wilson had both aroused expectations, which had not been fulfilled.
▪ To tamper with serfdom was certain to arouse wild expectations among the peasantry and would require the most rigorous control.
fear
▪ But you aroused those fears only to force exile.
▪ He said she did nothing to arouse fear in her sons to the degree that they would kill her.
▪ To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
hostility
▪ The New Urban Left councils aroused considerable hostility from the government, and some anxiety from the leadership of the Labour party.
▪ Consequently, the Franco regime could not institute a programme of land reform without arousing the hostility of the landowners.
interest
▪ A man doing a handstand in the town centre is likely to arouse interest.
▪ While the paintings by Miro do not arouse much interest, the ones by Klee become an instantaneous success.
▪ Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether, except when your activities arouse friendly interest.
▪ A new consumer product must be introduced with a suitable advertising campaign to arouse an interest in it.
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to arouse your interest in thinking about the question.
▪ The plan aroused much interest and in 1842 James Beart Simonds was selected as lecturer from half a dozen candidates.
▪ The shadow cabinet elections are arousing unusual interest because of change at the top.
ire
▪ Means-related fines, in particular, have aroused the ire of middle-income earners.
man
▪ A man doing a handstand in the town centre is likely to arouse interest.
▪ Its stirring words aroused free men everywhere to defend the government.
▪ Diana was flattered, flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior.
▪ The men who thought they drank alcohol and who actually got alcohol were the most highly aroused.
opposition
▪ Predictably, this putative development has aroused considerable opposition within public sector higher education.
▪ The project aroused tremendous community opposition in the mid-1980s and was initially denied a permit by the California Energy Commission.
▪ It's aroused a little local opposition.
▪ As might be expected, such a policy aroused enormous controversy and opposition, and was later modified.
▪ It aroused much local opposition but the directives came into force, technically at least, from I January this year.
▪ Even where an application does arouse some opposition, issues of public amenity rarely arise.
passion
▪ It arouses all forms of passion.
▪ Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces.
▪ The case aroused passions in Norfolk and across Britain.
resentment
▪ This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench, but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.
▪ It is the peculiar nature of the bureaucracy that sensible initiatives like this arouse great resentment and efforts at evasion.
▪ This aroused their resentment, and consequently their respect.
suspicion
▪ Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
▪ Although it quickly subsided, what I was able to catch was sufficient to arouse suspicion.
▪ Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.
▪ In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers' union branches.
▪ The two painters downstairs impinge - directly through their crazy behaviour arousing suspicion against themselves, and indirectly through Porfiry.
▪ If she aroused the girl's suspicion all would be lost.
▪ In the current climate, any smooth and unambiguous unity of theory is likely to arouse suspicion.
▪ He sat once again at his desk and began to consider how to get the official document translated without arousing further suspicion.
■ VERB
become
▪ Reinforce this so your man won't feel pressure to become aroused.
▪ We become deeply aroused by the featherbedding union.
▪ Santa Anna was not yet aware of the extent to which the nation had become aroused.
▪ When you try to activate these systems yourself, the body becomes aroused, which pushes sedation and ultimately sleep further away.
seem
▪ My first suspicion that these chaps were not what they seemed was aroused as I listened.
▪ Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His strange behavior aroused my suspicions.
▪ The resignation of the managing director is certain to arouse new fears about the future of the company.
▪ The success of the recent TV series has aroused young people's curiosity about nature in general.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ask yourself how it makes you feel, what memories it arouses within you and whether you enjoy the sensation.
▪ Certainly women could tell, as men could, when one of their number was aroused.
▪ It arouses dim memories of that tragic time when the flow of milk ceased for the child, when he was weaned.
▪ Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.
▪ Some of the girls aroused him and arousal made him think first of Charmian, then of Marge.
▪ The New Urban Left councils aroused considerable hostility from the government, and some anxiety from the leadership of the Labour party.
▪ Whether that will arouse great controversy among any but the most convinced monarchists is doubtful.
▪ Zeus had made him keeper of the Winds, to still them or arouse them at his will.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arouse

Arouse \A*rouse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aroused; p. pr. & vb. n. Arousing.] [Pref. a- + rouse.] To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.

Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host.
--Cowper.

No suspicion was aroused.
--Merivale.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
arouse

1590s, "awaken" (transitive), from a- (1) "on" + rouse. Related: Aroused; arousing.

Wiktionary
arouse

vb. To stimulate feelings.

WordNet
arouse

  1. v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke]

  2. stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: fall asleep]

  3. evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, bring up, put forward, call forth]

  4. cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" [syn: stimulate, brace, energize, energise, perk up] [ant: de-energize, de-energize, sedate]

  5. cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up] [ant: cause to sleep]

  6. to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" [syn: stir]

  7. stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" [syn: sex, excite, turn on, wind up]

Usage examples of "arouse".

It came to him with the force of a revelation that Cass excelled in everything she did, and that had she not married him all these talents would have died aborning This aroused in him a fierce protectiveness towards her which he had not suspected he possessed.

The depths of my evil passion were again sounded and aroused, and I resolved yet to humble the pride and conquer the coldness which galled to the very quick the morbid acuteness of my self-love.

Berry was aroused by an unusual prolonged wailing of the child, which showed that no one was comforting it, and failing to get any answer to her applications for admittance, she made bold to enter.

Nazi aggression was to remain essentially unchanged and to be used with staggering success until an aroused world much later woke up to it.

I ran, carrying the cat litter box like a pizza tray, disrupting the class, causing Winnie to become highly agitato, unable to explain because I had a cigar in my mouth and was carrying a pizza tray and running for my life from men who were carrying wildly beeping receivers which made them Israeli spies and men who were wildly firing weapons which made them Arab terrorists and the whole macho parade failing to arouse or interest the girls in the slightest, which, of course, made them lesbians.

The alienists listened with keen attention to his words, since their curiosity had been aroused to a high pitch by the suggestive yet mostly conflicting and incoherent stories of his family and neighbors.

The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.

That war and its resulting policy of extra-territorial expansion, so far from hindering the process of domestic amelioration, availed, from the sheer force of the national aspirations it aroused, to give a tremendous impulse to the work of national reform.

I painted our amorous combats in a lively and natural manner, for, besides my recollections, I had her living picture before my eyes, and I could follow on her features the various emotions aroused by my recital.

England and Russia prevented Bismarck from annihilating France in 1875, an incident which aroused justified fear throughout France and gave an impulse to the revenge party.

This aroused the normally mild-mannered and unexcitable technician to the point where he completely forgot leaving the apocalyptic sandwich behind.

They are fearsome appearing brutes at best, but when they are aroused they are fully as dangerous as they look.

The sight of his giant cockhead was intoxicating, and the arousing sight of the veins pulsing along his massive shaft made Hannah whimper as lust raced through her veins.

Today, first sentences and first paragraphs of any writing are increasingly important for arousing the restless reader.

Moreover, because touchy subjects arouse emotion, they are especially useful for the writer who knows that arousing the emotions of his audience is the test of his skill.