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arousing

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

唤醒,唤起,令人振奋,令人振奋的

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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

Examples

  • The interest it aroused among potential customers, and even competitors, was such that they have since pursued and honed the idea.

  • She found that “a moderate level of fear-arousing sensationalism” in such messages could increase user engagement.

  • There is something downright arousing about eating with one's hands.

  • Scratch that: these are actually more cringe-worthy than arousing.

  • According to the dictionary, it is “arousing a sympathetic response.”

  • Afterward, the company became timid and slow, almost afraid to compete for fear of arousing more scrutiny.

  • The downside of a writer “arousing love” is literary groupies.

  • The arousing of the fundamental instincts of these human beings had, indeed, enormously emphasized the animal in them.

  • The person who had the privilege of arousing the American's attention to no eminent degree was the White Scalper.

  • Nevertheless, when morning came and the sun was wide awake, I had no little trouble in arousing the children.

  • The object of Gracchus was to break the political union between the two factions by arousing the points of antagonism.

  • She would have been amazed could she have guessed that she was actually arousing him to resentment.