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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arouse.

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Examples

  • I can see the excitement which this title arouses as it is flashed across the sierras, down the valleys, and into the various reading-rooms and parlors of the Golden City of the Golden State.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

  • The very sound of the title arouses in my heart all that is antagonistic. "

    The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901

  • In America, where his name arouses no political prejudice, he is better judged.

    Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

  • In the second part, I allow my fancy to play lightly with the suggestions this name arouses in me, and I make allusion very felicitously to the famous statue of the Wingless Victory, which the

    The God of Love 1898

  • Justly does the writer proceed to say: "I am well aware that the idea arouses antagonism and inflammatory denunciation in some minds."

    Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Charles Coppens 1877

  • The move toward greater autonomy is often called privatization-but that term arouses suspicion among some higher education experts, especially because it implies higher tuition rates.

    Pope Center Articles 2010

  • Tokyo -- No artistic expression arouses as much enthusiasm and is as well-received both within and outside of Japan as manga, which are Japanese comics about super heroes and extraordinary beings that have become the country's most exported cultural product.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • Instead, in echoes of the state's puritanical censors of the past, officials are trying to suppress truthful information because it "arouses" the public.

    Financial Info: Banned in Boston John Berlau 2011

  • Your very name arouses her aversion for the past, for life. "

    The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • Salt was also forbidden, because it "arouses the senses."

    Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011

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