arouse

[əˈraʊz]

Definition:
1. To make you feel more active and want to start doing something.
2. Evoke or awaken (a feeling, emotion, or response).

Use 'arouse' in a sentence:

1. They are trying to arouse sympathy for their cause.
2. I didn't believe that she could arouse me again, but I trusted her more now and let her try.
3. The battle roared; a sound calculated to arouse the sublimest emotions in the breast of the soldier.
4. The Treaty has failed to arouse genuine public outrage.
5. About two o'clock, we were aroused from our sleep by a knocking at the door.
6. Acts of this sort arouse every cultured person and no haziness or lack of clarity can excuse them.
7. He aroused her mothering instincts.
8. They are trying to arouse sympathy for their cause.
9. He apologized, saying this subject always aroused him.
10. We must arouse them to fight with enemies.
11. The whole community was aroused by the crime.
12. Walking towards her, I tried to arouse her, but she would not wake.
13. Her strange behaviour aroused our suspicions.