The report aroused a great deal of public interest. The husky sound of her voice could always arouse him. Their proposal is certain to arouse the opposition.
Recent Examples on the WebThe program, which ran between 1965 and 1996, was meant to arouse an interest in reading. Christine Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022 The program, which ran between 1965 and 1996, sought to arouse an interest in reading in children.New York Times, 28 July 2022 The first episode includes a flogging demonstration, in which one person strikes another with a whip to arouse a sense of pleasure. Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022 These are the ones that arouse Katia and Maurice’s interest the most. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2022 Five posts reported persistent avoidance of people, activities and places that might lead to transmission of insects or arouse recollections of the original encounter. Jerome Goddard, The Conversation, 3 June 2022 For doctors who did not read an entire article, titles such as 'The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis: the 30th year of observation' should have been sufficient to arouse suspicion. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 May 2022 Schwarzenegger’s failure to arouse any sense of unity in this country wasn’t surprising to Mia Bloom, an extremism expert and professor of communication and Middle East studies at Georgia State University.Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022 Either scenario would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a significant propaganda victory and potentially arouse support within Russia for an attack on NATO countries.Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2022 See More
Note: The verb arouse is formed by analogy with rise : arise,wake : awake; in these pairs a- goes back to Old English, as either the perfective prefix a- (see abide) or a reduced form of on- (see a- entry 1).