verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arouse a feeling (= cause it )
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The music aroused a feeling of calm within him.
arouse opposition/arouse the opposition of sb (= make someone feel disagreement )
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A plan to build on farm land aroused local opposition.
arouse opposition/arouse the opposition of sb (= make someone feel disagreement )
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A plan to build on farm land aroused local opposition.
arouse resentment (= make people feel it )
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The terms of his contract aroused deep resentment among the other players.
arouse sb's curiosity (= make someone want to know about something )
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New people in the village always aroused our curiosity.
arouse suspicion (= make people think that someone has done something wrong )
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How was he able to kill his victims without arousing suspicion?
arouse/generate enthusiasm formal (= make people feel enthusiastic )
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The changes to the timetable failed to arouse enthusiasm amongst the staff.
arouse/generate/attract interest (= make people interested )
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This extraordinary story has aroused interest in many quarters.
arouse/provoke anger ( also stir up anger informal ) (= make people angry )
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The referee’s decision provoked anger among the fans.
arouse/provoke anxiety (= cause it )
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The presence of Indian troops near the border has aroused considerable anxiety in neighbouring Pakistan.
arouse/provoke/excite controversy (= cause it )
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Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion.
arouse/stir passions (= cause strong feelings in people )
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The case aroused passions throughout the country.
raise/arouse/draw sb’s ire (= make someone angry )
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The proposal has drawn the ire of local residents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
anger
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In Ionia, Pausanias' arrogance and lust for gold and women aroused widespread anger .
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Similarly the threat of a loss arouses anxiety and actual loss causes sorrow, while both situations are likely to arouse anger .
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Friendly fire is included; that's the euphemism which aroused such anger at the Gulf War inquest in Oxford this spring.
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They are fascinating and frightening; they arouse anger and they are defiant.
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This oppressive measure on the part of the authority aroused much anger among writers.
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Such arrogance always aroused the anger of the gods.
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Performed in Shiraz it aroused enormous anger and offence.
anxiety
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The Conservative government of the 1980s has aroused profound anxiety by its policies of centralization and executive control.
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Such increases could renew corporate efforts to cut medical costs by passing them on to employees, thus further arousing consumer anxiety .
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Disablement arouses severe anxieties and strong resentment in people.
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The more you try to control something that can not be controlled, the more your body is aroused , causing anxiety .
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His presence in restricted areas had aroused the anxiety of the Soviets.
concern
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It has aroused concern because of the resulting increase in the burden of taxation and reduction in individual choice.
controversy
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Whether that will arouse great controversy among any but the most convinced monarchists is doubtful.
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Apart from Mary, however, black images are too rare to arouse much comment or controversy .
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The introduction of the community charge aroused considerable controversy around three main issues.
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It aroused as much controversy as any Alsop column up to that time.
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As might be expected, such a policy aroused enormous controversy and opposition, and was later modified.
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Political Pluralism and the Media Media analysis often arouses controversy , not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications.
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The justification for Gloucester's assumption of power confused contemporaries and has continued to arouse controversy .
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What were the central features of this democracy, which aroused such controversy at the time, and still provokes debate today?
curiosity
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My curiosity about beekeeping was aroused when I read that Sherlock Holmes story.
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No wonder my curiosity was aroused .
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In the middle, a tall negro. Curiosity aroused , the rider turned his horse and rode towards them.
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His curiosity is aroused by my problem, and he gives me some suggestions to follow up in the library in Asnieres.
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But Stevens' curiosity was aroused .
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As a result of the huge curiosity our stance aroused , we had to continuously explain and defend our politics.
emotion
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But once in a while, when her veil drops, it arouses other emotions .
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They were a device to arouse emotions .
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Which situations tend to arouse these emotions in you?
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Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily? she thought hazily.
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This national event aroused such emotions and nostalgia that people everywhere responded with magnificent donations.
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Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large.
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The setting up of the agency has aroused strong emotions , but there are widespread misunderstandings about it.
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There were tackles which brought the Aberdeen support to their feet in acclamation, and aroused different emotions in the rest.
enthusiasm
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Sixth-form colleges did not arouse enthusiasm in the Department of Education and Science of 1965.
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A plan is taking shape, and it arouses obvious enthusiasm in some quarters.
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Personenkreis 1-3 is not exactly the type of play that is guaranteed to arouse the enthusiasm of the critics.
expectations
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The government's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation.
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Kennedy and Wilson had both aroused expectations , which had not been fulfilled.
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To tamper with serfdom was certain to arouse wild expectations among the peasantry and would require the most rigorous control.
fear
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But you aroused those fears only to force exile.
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He said she did nothing to arouse fear in her sons to the degree that they would kill her.
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To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
hostility
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The New Urban Left councils aroused considerable hostility from the government, and some anxiety from the leadership of the Labour party.
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Consequently, the Franco regime could not institute a programme of land reform without arousing the hostility of the landowners.
interest
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A man doing a handstand in the town centre is likely to arouse interest .
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While the paintings by Miro do not arouse much interest , the ones by Klee become an instantaneous success.
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Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether, except when your activities arouse friendly interest .
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A new consumer product must be introduced with a suitable advertising campaign to arouse an interest in it.
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The purpose of this chapter is to arouse your interest in thinking about the question.
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The plan aroused much interest and in 1842 James Beart Simonds was selected as lecturer from half a dozen candidates.
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The shadow cabinet elections are arousing unusual interest because of change at the top.
ire
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Means-related fines, in particular, have aroused the ire of middle-income earners.
man
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A man doing a handstand in the town centre is likely to arouse interest.
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Its stirring words aroused free men everywhere to defend the government.
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Diana was flattered, flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior.
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The men who thought they drank alcohol and who actually got alcohol were the most highly aroused .
opposition
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Predictably, this putative development has aroused considerable opposition within public sector higher education.
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The project aroused tremendous community opposition in the mid-1980s and was initially denied a permit by the California Energy Commission.
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It's aroused a little local opposition .
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As might be expected, such a policy aroused enormous controversy and opposition , and was later modified.
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It aroused much local opposition but the directives came into force, technically at least, from I January this year.
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Even where an application does arouse some opposition , issues of public amenity rarely arise.
passion
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It arouses all forms of passion .
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Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces.
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The case aroused passions in Norfolk and across Britain.
resentment
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This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench, but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.
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It is the peculiar nature of the bureaucracy that sensible initiatives like this arouse great resentment and efforts at evasion.
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This aroused their resentment , and consequently their respect.
suspicion
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Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion .
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Although it quickly subsided, what I was able to catch was sufficient to arouse suspicion .
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Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.
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In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers' union branches.
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The two painters downstairs impinge - directly through their crazy behaviour arousing suspicion against themselves, and indirectly through Porfiry.
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If she aroused the girl's suspicion all would be lost.
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In the current climate, any smooth and unambiguous unity of theory is likely to arouse suspicion .
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He sat once again at his desk and began to consider how to get the official document translated without arousing further suspicion .
■ VERB
become
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Reinforce this so your man won't feel pressure to become aroused .
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We become deeply aroused by the featherbedding union.
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Santa Anna was not yet aware of the extent to which the nation had become aroused .
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When you try to activate these systems yourself, the body becomes aroused , which pushes sedation and ultimately sleep further away.
seem
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My first suspicion that these chaps were not what they seemed was aroused as I listened.
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Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His strange behavior aroused my suspicions.
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The resignation of the managing director is certain to arouse new fears about the future of the company.
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The success of the recent TV series has aroused young people's curiosity about nature in general.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ask yourself how it makes you feel, what memories it arouses within you and whether you enjoy the sensation.
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Certainly women could tell, as men could, when one of their number was aroused.
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It arouses dim memories of that tragic time when the flow of milk ceased for the child, when he was weaned.
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Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.
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Some of the girls aroused him and arousal made him think first of Charmian, then of Marge.
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The New Urban Left councils aroused considerable hostility from the government, and some anxiety from the leadership of the Labour party.
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Whether that will arouse great controversy among any but the most convinced monarchists is doubtful.
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Zeus had made him keeper of the Winds, to still them or arouse them at his will.