Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.

    to arouse compassion, jealousy, or anger

    Those insults aroused me to anger.

    reizen, aufreizen, anregen

    вызыва́тьvyzyvátʹ, вы́зватьvýzvatʹ, пробужда́тьprobuždátʹ

    to evoke sexual feelings

  2. (transitive)To sexually stimulate.

    erregen, reizen, aufreizen

    возбужда́тьvozbuždátʹ, возбуди́тьvozbudítʹ

    збуджуватиzbudžuvaty, збудитиzbudyty

  3. To sexually stimulate.

    (euphemistic, transitive)To cause an erection of the penis or other physical signs of sexual arousal, such as fluid secretion.

    I can't wear wool underwear: it tends to arouse me at inappropriate times.

  4. (transitive)To wake from sleep or stupor; to rouse.

    1996, Beruga (line translated by Dan Owsen), Terranigma. Nintendo of America. I have no idea who you are, but I thank you for arousing me.

Examples

62 sentences
  1. The speaker aroused the anger of the audience.

    ruОратор вызвал негодование зрителей. — Balamax

  2. My curiosity was aroused.

  3. The teacher aroused our interest.

    ruУчитель возбудил наш интерес. — Hellerick

    deDer Lehrer hat unser Interesse geweckt. — al_ex_an_der

  4. Tom's imagination was aroused.

  5. War arouses the animal in man.

    ruВойна пробуждает в человеке животное. — Hellerick

    deDer Krieg erweckt das Tier im Menschen. — Manfredo

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to sexually stimulate:
Русский
By meaning 3
to stimulate feelings:
to awaken:
to sexually stimulate:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to stimulate feelings:
to awaken:

Forms

arouses, arousing, aroused, aroused
Base formarouse · to arouse
3rd person singulararouses
Present participlearousing
Past simplearoused
Past participlearoused

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyarouse
he, she, itarouses

Past simpleLesson

all personsaroused

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave aroused
he, she, ithas aroused

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill arouse

Synonyms

62 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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