Showing Results for "arouses"

arouses

VERB

excite, entice

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awaken foment incite inflame instigate kindle provoke rouse spark spur stimulate stir whip up

STRONG

agitate alert animate call challenge electrify enliven foster goad move rally send thrill waken warm whet

WEAK

fire up heat up turn on wake up work up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm cease discourage disenchant dissuade halt prevent put out stop

STRONG

bore dishearten dull ignore receive

WEAK

lull quiet

Example Sentences

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Yonder valley deep Looms gray behind the mist and morn Silvers the brook; the shepherd's horn Arouses rustics from their sleep.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

And will my name wake moods as amorous As that of Abelard or Launcelot Arouses? be recalled when Pyramus And Tristram are unrhymed of and forgot?—

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch