arouse
verb
[ əˈraʊz ]
• evoke or awaken (a feeling, emotion, or response).
• "something about the man aroused the guard's suspicions"
Similar:
cause,
induce,
prompt,
set off,
trigger,
stir up,
inspire,
call forth,
call/bring into being,
draw forth,
bring out,
excite,
evoke,
pique,
whet,
stir,
engender,
generate,
kindle,
fire,
touch off,
spark off,
provoke,
foster,
whip up,
sow the seeds of,
enkindle,
• awaken (someone) from sleep.
• "she had been aroused from deep slumber"
Opposite:
send to sleep,
Origin:
late 16th century: from rouse, on the pattern of the pair of rise, arise .
