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aroused

aroused \aroused\ adj.

  1. emotionally stimulated.

    Syn: stimulated, stirred, stirred up.

  2. 1 brought to a state of great psychological tension.

    Syn: wound up.

  3. 1 stimulated to a state of awareness and interest. the aroused opposition

    Syn: awakened.

  4. sexually aroused; feeling a strong urge for sexual activity.

    Syn: aflame, hot, turned on(predicate), horny.

  5. excessively affected by emotion; -- of persons.

    Syn: emotional, excited.

Wiktionary
aroused

vb. (en-past of: arouse)

WordNet
aroused
  1. adj. aroused to action; "the aroused opposition"

  2. emotionally aroused [syn: stimulated, stirred, stirred up]

  3. brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight" [syn: wound up]

  4. feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny" [syn: horny, randy, ruttish, turned on(p)]

  5. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire" [syn: ablaze, aflame, turned on(p)]

  6. of persons; excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise" [syn: emotional, excited, worked up]

Wikipedia
Aroused (film)

Aroused is a 2013 feature-length documentary film directed by the photographer Deborah Anderson, in her directorial debut.

Usage examples of "aroused".

Under the bra her nipples tightened visibly, aroused simply by his look.

His long, powerful fingers cupped her hips hard against his own, rocking her, turning all of her body into one long caress over his aroused flesh.

She succeeded only in rubbing over him in a way that both aroused and embarrassed her.

If she knew how aroused he was, he was afraid she would run from him again.

Then he held her so that she just brushed against his heavily aroused flesh.

Her fingertips ruffled the tawny hair on his chest, traced the subtle ridges of muscle down his abdomen, tangled again in darker hair, then teased his aroused flesh without quite touching him.

Only by blending together, sinking into one another, could they begin to describe or appease the levels of need they aroused in each other.

When he saw her dilated pupils, her flushed cheeks, her quick, shallow breaths, he knew that she was as aroused as he was.

Then came searing memories of being held by the man who was so close to her now, the man who was ignoring her as though his hands had never explored her naked breasts, as though he had never dragged her over his aroused flesh, making her moan with sheer desire.

She didn’t know what it was like to be aroused, hungry, demanding of her lover.

Her husband’s hands had been even more careless of her delicate flesh than his mouth had been, especially when he was aroused.

When he nudged against her, aroused and hard, he expected her to retreat.

For an instant he lived again in Southeast Asia, felt again the delicacy of Mei's hands searching over his hot flesh, smelled again the heady scent of her aroused body, knew again the moment of blank shock when at the instant of his own release she raised a gun barrel toward his head.

You taught me that very well, Catlin," Lindsay said, her smile fading as she remembered the ease with which he had aroused her and then had turned away from her, all business, a candle burning in ice, brilliance without warmth.

After the first shock wave of desire ripped through him, he told his hands to stop kneading her resilient body, to stop rocking her hips against his violently aroused flesh.