Definitions for arouse

arouse a·rouse

Spelling: [uh-rouz]
IPA: /əˈraʊz/

Arouse is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in arouse (aeorsu).

Definitions for arouse

verb (used with object)

  1. to stir to action or strong response; excite:
  2. to stimulate sexually.
  3. to awaken; wake up:

verb (used without object)

  1. to awake or become aroused:

Origin of arouse

1585-95; a-3 + rouse1, modeled on arise

Examples for arouse

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

Let us arouse the people; hitherto we have depended too much upon the nobles.

In fact, they are so common as to arouse little or no wonder in the minds of the people.

arouse all together, mes enfants, under pain of my displeasure.

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

A mosque is neither factory nor fortress: Why should it arouse either envy or fear?

She was gowned, too, with a chic nicety to arouse the envy of all less-fortunate women.

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

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

In it we do not know the evil passions which ambition and strife are said to arouse.

Word Value for arouse
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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