arouse

Meanings

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  • "arouse pity"
• stop sleeping
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
• cause to be alert and energetic
• cause to become awake or conscious
• to begin moving,
• stimulate sexually
  • "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

Synonyms

awake, awaken, brace, bring up, call down, call forth, come alive, conjure, conjure up, elicit, energise, energize, enkindle, evoke, excite, fire, invoke, kindle, perk up, provoke, put forward, raise, rouse, sex, stimulate, stir, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, wind up