Aroused

Definition: Aroused

Aroused

Adjective

1. Aroused to action; "the aroused opposition".

2. Emotionally aroused.

3. Brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight".

4. Feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny".

5. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire".

6. Of persons; excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aroused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Aroused

Sexuality

Have the hots; become aroused, get hot; have an erection, get it up.

Crosswords: Aroused

Wow I'm sexually aroused, Commander (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

The head of the sexually aroused adult gobbler can change into a variety of shades of red, white and blue (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell)

The presence of so much gold in one place naturally aroused the interest of the English criminal elements (The First Great Train Robbery; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

Ladies and gentlemen, because of the controversy already aroused, the producers of this film wish to re-emphasize what is already stated in the film, that there is no established scientific connection between Mongolism and psychotic or criminal behavior (Twisted Nerve; writing credit: Roy Boulting; Leo Marks)

Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves. (references; author: unknown)

Aroused (1966)

Sleeping Beauty Aroused (1989)

Aroused (1989)

Amber Aroused (1985)

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Books

• A lion aroused : conversations with Shigeyoshi Matsumae (reference)

• Aroused by books (reference)

• The Elgin Affair: The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions It Aroused (reference)

• The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (reference)

• The Uss Arizona: The Ship, the Men, the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Symbol That Aroused America (G K Hall Large Print American History Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Aroused (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All that he had of feeling and affection was aroused and vehemently attracted towards this child

It was a few moments before they were fully aroused.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Libido, interest in having sex, as well as the ability to become sexually aroused, change for some women. (references)

Reports of the benefits of botulinum toxin have thus aroused great interest and hope among physicians, biomedical scientists, and patients. (references)

You might have trouble becoming sexually aroused because of hormone changes, discomfort due to changes in the vagina, or medicines you are taking. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

The intervention aroused controversy locally and overseas. (references)

Chad

Chad's fiscal policies have aroused much controversy in the business community. (references)

Bermuda

Their reports aroused great interest about the islands in England, and in 1612 King James extended the Charter of the Virginia Company to include them. (references)

Political Rights

Ukraine

Very high voter turnouts, particularly in western districts, aroused suspicion of ballot stuffing on President Kuchma's behalf in the second round of voting. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "aroused": be aroused. Additional references.

Ending with "aroused": half-aroused, non-aroused, over-aroused, partially-aroused, re-aroused.

Arabic 

‏ثائر (agitated, enraged, eruptive, inflamed, rebel, rebellious, recusant, revolted, revolutionary). (various references)

Chinese 

激起 (Arouse, Arousing). (various references)

Danish

FUS (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea), fuldt udviklet sø (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea). (various references)

Dutch

vol-ontwikkelde zeegang (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea). (various references)

Finnish

täysin kehittynyt meri (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea). (various references)

French

mer entièrement levée (fully arisen developed sea, fully aroused sea), individu sur le qui-vive (strongly aroused individual). (various references)

German

rüttelte auf, aufgeweckt (adroit, agile, alert, alive, awoken, bright, brisk, keen, lively, quick, sharp, vivacious). (various references)

Greek 

πλήρως ανεπτυγμένος κυματισμóς (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea). (various references)

Hungarian

felkelt (risen, to arouse, to be up and about, to kindle, to rouse, to wake, wake). (various references)

Indonesian

tergugah (awakened), tergiur (ecstatic, rapt, tempted). (various references)

Italian

mare completamente sviluppato (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea), mare completamente formato (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea), individuo molto eccitato (strongly aroused individual), individuo ipereccitato (strongly aroused individual). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

興起 (aroused energy, ascendency, high-spirited action, rise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うき (aroused energy, ascendency, bad breath, brightness, broad gauge, chance, conceited, discipline, easygoing, final, fragrance, good opportunity, high class, high-spirited action, ideal time, Imperial era, inquisitiveness, intimation, latter period, law and order, optimistic, postscript, public institution, Red Flag, rise, scale, school discipline, school flag, school regulations, splendour). (various references)

Korean 

깨우�" (Awakened). (various references)

Manx

greesit (abetted, excited, fevered, provoked, stirred), er cannoo (amorous, lustful, sexually precocious, sexy), dooishtit (awakened, wakened up), dooisht (awake, vigilant). (various references)

Pig Latin

arouseday.(various references)

Portuguese

mar completamente formado (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea). (various references)

Spanish

mar con oleaje completamente desarrollado (fully aroused sea, fully developed sea, fully-arisen sea), individuo hiperexcitado (strongly aroused individual). (various references)

Swedish

upphetsad (excited, fevered, feverish, feverous, frantic, on fire, wrought up, wroughtup). (various references)

cito, fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis, ferverunt, fervet. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "aroused": caroused, rearoused. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aroused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acouse, adosed, Alrouse, Aoussou, arised, Arjuzah, arooseh, aroue, arouge, arous, arousel, arrouse, atouse, Auroise, proused, Vavrousek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: adores, arouse, douras, douser, oreads, roused, sarode, soared, soured, uredos.

-2 letters: adore, arose, aures, dares, dears, doers, dorsa, doser, doura, douse, druse, duras, dures, duros, euros, oared, oread, rased, reads, redos, resod, roads, rosed, roues, rouse, sarod, sudor, urase, ureas, uredo, ursae.

-3 letters: ados, aero, ares, arse, dare, dear, doer, does, dore, dors.

+1 letter: caroused, outdares, outreads, readouts, roulades, savoured, upsoared.

+2 letters: aeroducts, ausformed, croustade, crusadoes, cruzadoes, dangerous, educators, meandrous, noseguard, outdreams, outraised, outsoared, outspread, outstared, outtrades, poulardes, rearoused, roadhouse, superroad, unloaders.

+3 letters: abductores, adenovirus, adulterous, auditories, authorised, autostrade, baudronses, boulevards, boundaries, burladeros, cadaverous, coruscated, croustades, demeanours, discourage, drupaceous, endeavours, furanoside, guardhouse, noseguards, obduracies, outlanders, outsavored, outsmarted, outspreads, outstarted, oversauced, predaceous, predacious, roadhouses, roundelays, sandgrouse, slanderous, sporulated, squadroned, subcordate, subrogated, sudatories, superboard, superroads, surrogated, unabsorbed, undercoats, unreasoned, warehoused.