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adjective

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1
as in roused

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2
as in excited

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aroused

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verb

past tense of arouse
1
as in waked
to cause to stop sleeping the rooster's crow aroused me from my deep sleep

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as in awaked
to cease to be asleep set the alarm so we would arouse at 5:00 a.m.

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as in provoked
to rouse to strong feeling or action the court's controversial decision aroused many to protest and to lobby the legislature for a constitutional amendment

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aroused
  1. excited
  2. provoked
  3. horny
  4. encouraged
  5. lustful
  6. awakened
  7. awoke
  8. passionate
Adjective
  • Advertisement Prospective renters shouldn’t get too excited, however.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • And, in fact, the American consumer today, as well as corporate America, is quite excited about what the Trump administration is talking about, and the business environment is very positive.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of excited
Verb
  • The funding debacle has provoked questions about Speaker Johnson’s future and whether someone else is better equipped to lead the House GOP conference in the next Congress.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But few things provoked a more consistently ambivalent posture from Buckley than populism.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of provoked
Adjective
  • That level of sentiment would be tough to maintain if a show about such fundamentally horny, stupid people planned to last for several more years.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
  • As the host of Call Her Daddy, the 30-year-old has become the young, horny, normie, glossy-lipped white woman’s Joe Rogan.
    Brock Colyar, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of horny
Verb
  • The Year of Return also encouraged tourism and cultural connections between the African diaspora and Ghana.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Customers are encouraged to check with their local store for specific hours of operation.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of encouraged
Adjective
  • The British actor finds the humor and sensitivity in his lustful swain, and his mellifluous voice is perfectly matched to Shakespeare’s prose.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Otto Hightower – 3 points The grandson Otto installed as king is overruling him in front of the people and getting bamboozled into ousting him as Hand by a man who trades secrets in exchange for lustful glances at Otto’s daughter’s toes.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Definition of lustful
Verb
  • Scott felt awakened to the comedic power of understatement.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Like every morning in #Ukraine the inhabitants are awakened not by the sun, but by the sound of the bombs and the cries of the victims.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of awakened
Verb
  • Last Christmas morning over 5,000 children awoke to an empty stocking — the bitter pain of disappointment that Santa Claus had forgotten them.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Doe lost consciousness and awoke fully nude on his stomach with Combs raping him.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of awoke
Adjective
  • The newlyweds wake up hungry after a passionate wedding night, which is when Mel remembers that Charmaine never did turn up yesterday.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But the importance of bird conservation does not start or end with one passionate 21-year-old.
    Eliza Principe Garcia, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of passionate
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