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Roused

/ˈɹaʊzd/

To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

📖 Definitions of "Roused"

verb

1
To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
2
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
"to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions"
3
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
4
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
"to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
stimulating	Having a manner that stimulates; serving to stimulate.
stirringnoun	invigorating or inspiring
arousalnoun	Sexual arousal.
provocativenoun	Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
agitated	Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
awakenedverb	Having been woken up.
awokenverb	(nonstandard, rare) Misspelling of awaken. [(transitive) To cause to become awake.]
frazzled	(colloquial) Stressed and exhausted (either physically or emotionally).
overexcited	Excessively excited
pissed	(chiefly US, Canada, Australia, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
reawakened	Being awakened again.
stirredverb	set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend
upsetverb	(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
wakenedverb	(intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
wokenverb	(ambitransitive) To make or become woke or woker.
stimulated	In a condition or state of stimulation.
aroused	Sexually excited; randy, lustful.
enlivened	made lively or spirited
kindled	set afire
animated	Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.