单词 | arouse |
释义 | arousen. rare. An act of arousing, an alarum. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > warning arousing the unwary scrimmish1505 alarm1570 scrimmage1632 arouse1881 1881 C. Rossetti Pageant & Other Poems 7 I blow an arouse Through the world's wide house To quicken the torpid earth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). arousev. 1. To raise or stir up (a person) from sleep or inactivity; to awaken. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)] wecchec897 aweccheeOE wakenc1175 awake?c1225 upwakea1325 wakec1369 ruthec1400 daw1470 awaken1513 to stir up1526 dawn1530 to call up1548 unsleep1555 rouse1563 abraid1590 amove1591 arousea1616 dissleep1616 expergefy1623 start?1624 to rouse out1825 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up stirc1000 aweccheOE stirc1175 arear?c1225 awakec1315 amovec1330 araisec1374 wake1398 wakenc1400 to stir upa1500 incend?1504 to firk upc1540 bestir1549 store1552 bustlea1555 tickle1567 solicitate1568 to stir one's taila1572 exsuscitate1574 rouse1574 suscitate1598 accite1600 actuate1603 arousea1616 poach1632 roust1658 to shake up1850 to galvanize to or into life1853 to make things (or something specified) hum1884 to jack up1914 rev1945 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 3 Loud houling Wolues arouse the Iades That dragge the Tragicke melancholy night. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 36 Grasping his spear, forth issu'd to arouse His brother. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §11. 80 [I] fell asleep. My friend, however, soon aroused me. 2. To stir up into activity, excite (principles of action, emotions, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > cause or give rise to an emotion rearOE arear?c1225 annoyc1300 movea1325 excite1393 raisea1400 lighta1413 stirc1430 provokec1450 provocate?a1475 rendera1522 to stir upc1530 excitate?1549 inspire1576 yield1576 to turn up1579 rouse1589 urge1594 incense1598 upraisea1600 upreara1600 irritate1612 awakena1616 recreate1643 pique1697 arouse1730 unlull1743 energize1753 evocate1827 evoke1856 vibe1977 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 491 A rowsed vengeance sets him new a worke.] 1730 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons 47 But absent, what fantastic pangs arrous'd, Rage in each thought. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlv. 225 No suspicion was aroused. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 20 It arouses the killing propensity in me. 3. intransitive (for reflexive). To wake up, bestir oneself. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself arisec825 to start upc1275 stirc1275 shifta1400 awakea1450 to put out one's fins?1461 wake1523 to shake one's ears1580 rouse1589 bestira1616 awaken1768 arouse1822 waken1825 to wake snakes1835 roust1841 to flax round1884 to get busy1896 to get one's arse in gear1948 1822 W. Havergal in Life (1882) 33 The parish began to arouse and visitors to inquire. Draft additions June 2008 4. transitive. To induce a state of sexual arousal in. Occasionally also intransitive. ΚΠ 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male x. 363 The upper level male is aroused by a considerable variety of sexual stimuli. 1968 ‘N. Blake’ Private Wound v. 69 She used none of the experienced woman's verbal tricks to arouse me, none of the shameless, titillating, love-talk. 1989 R. Jones Transparent Gestures iv. 62 I hated those sycophants who followed them..those whores who knew all the tricks to arouse. 2004 Independent (Tabloid ed.) 30 Apr. 3/3 Freud wrote rather pompously about foot fetishists, who are aroused by a part of the body he considered ‘very inappropriate for sexual purposes’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1881v.a1616 |
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