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.