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1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   "arouse pity";
   - elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
    
2. Stop sleeping
   - wake up, awake, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
    
3. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "arouse the spectre of unemployment";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, bring up, put forward, call forth
    
4. Cause to be alert and energetic
   - stimulate, brace, energize, energise [Brit], perk up
    
5. Cause to become awake or conscious
   - awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up
    
6. To begin moving
   - stir
    
7. To evoke sexual feelings
   "This movie usually arouses the male audience";
   - sex, excite, turn on, wind up

Derived forms: aroused, arousing, arouses

Type of: affect, alter, call up, change, change state, create, excite, make, modify, move, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, summon, turn

Encyclopedia: Arouse