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arousing en · ADJ
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Causing arousal.
I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.
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unarousing · arousingly · nonarousing · arousingness
Translations (2)
pt excitador (causing arousal) · fi kiihottava (causing arousal)
arousing en · NOUN
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(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:
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arousing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of arouse