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arousingverbpresent participle of arouse to cause to stop sleepingthe rooster's crow aroused me from my deep sleep awakening, awaking, knocking up(British), rousing, wakening, waking rousting, routingraising, revivingreawakening, rewakingagitating, bestirring, disturbing, exciting, provoking, stimulating, stirring lulling hypnotizing, mesmerizing to cease to be asleepset the alarm so we would arouse at 5:00 a.m. awakening, awaking, rousing, wakening, waking arising, getting up, rising, rolling out, turning out, uprisingwatchingrevivingreawakening, rewakingshifting, stirring catnapping, conking (off or out), dozing, dropping off, napping, nodding, resting, sleeping, slumbering, snoozingbedding (down), couching, dossing (down)(chiefly British), flopping, kipping (down)(British), retiring, sacking out, turning inlying up, sleeping inoversleeping to rouse to strong feeling or actionthe court's controversial decision aroused many to protest and to lobby the legislature for a constitutional amendment encouraging, exciting, firing (up), impassioning, inciting, instigating, moving, piquing, provoking, revving (up), sparking, stimulating, stirring fanning, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, triggeringactivating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)angering, enraging, maddening, upsettingjeering, taunting, teasingaggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing building a fire under calming, soothing, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating in 1948 |