AROUSED

aroused, emotional, excited, worked up

(adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; “he would become emotional over nothing at all”; “she was worked up about all the noise”

stimulated, stirred, stirred up, aroused

(adjective) emotionally aroused

ablaze, aflame, aroused

(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; “his face all ablaze with excitement”- Bram Stoker; “he was aflame with desire”

aroused

(adjective) aroused to action; “the aroused opposition”

aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on

(adjective) feeling great sexual desire; “feeling horny”

aroused, wound up

(adjective) brought to a state of great tension; “all wound up for a fight”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

aroused

simple past tense and past participle of arouse

Source: Wiktionary


AROUSE

A*rouse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aroused; p. pr. & vb. n. Arousing.] Etym: [Pref. a- + rouse.]

Definition: To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

16 April 2024

CONFIDENCE

(noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; “public confidence in the economy”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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