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arouse

/uh-rouz/US // əˈraʊz //UK // (əˈraʊz) //

唤起,激发,引起,激起

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·roused, a·rous·ing.

    • : to stir to action or strong response; excite: to arouse a crowd;to arouse suspicion.
    • : to stimulate sexually.
    • : to awaken; wake up: The footsteps aroused the dog.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·roused, a·rous·ing.

    • : to awake or become aroused: At dawn the farmers began to arouse.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbexcite, entice
Forms: aroused, arouses, arousing

Examples

  • Poor coordination, meanwhile, can arouse musicians’ lateral prefrontal cortex regions to impose control and ground them before they can take flight.

  • By introducing these arousing toys into your cat’s play routine, you can avoid impromptu fights between, say, your cat’s claws and your couch, as well as unnecessary weight gain.

  • They electrically aroused the cell milliseconds before wiggling a whisker.

  • The book probed the discipline’s theoretical underpinnings in addition to exploring more provocative questions, such as whether analysts were ever aroused by their patients’ fantasies.

  • “We want to arouse curiosity for these authors and, consequently, curiosity about books,” explains Aurora Pedro Pinto of Livraria’s executive board.

  • She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians.

  • She was more interested in the way fashion played out in popular culture, they way it could arouse, empower and provoke.

  • But while horror films excite and arouse, they “often leave people feeling nervous and unsettled,” despite any catharsis.

  • The idea that women must be cloaked and hidden from display lest they arouse male lust is not unique to Islam.

  • Why did such a simple, grainy, black-and-white photograph arouse such reaction?

  • The student who does not intend to arouse himself need hope for no keen sense of beauty.

  • If he had set out to arouse emotion in these two sluggish breasts he had done so with a vengeance.

  • All arouse themselves, thinking at first that it is a fire; but the master of the house springing up, throws the window open.

  • Her soul, untouched by human passion or human skill, demands the power of god-like genius to arouse it.

  • Evidently the stranger was not impressed by Scattergood in a manner to arouse him to a notable exertion of courtesy.