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arousing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. Causing arousal.
    • I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.

Forms

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more arousing Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most arousing Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unarousing · arousingly · nonarousing · arousingness

Translations (2)

pt excitador (causing arousal) · fi kiihottava (causing arousal)

arousing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
    • There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings, mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy. 1912, Will Levington Comfort, Fate Knocks at the Door:
    • These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity. 1913, Anna Bishop Scofield, Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, 2nd edition:

Forms

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arousings Number=Plur lexicographic

arousing en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of arouse
    form of arouse