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Arouse vs Angry - What's the difference?

arouse | angry |

As a verb arouse

is to stimulate feelings.

As an adjective angry is

displaying or feeling anger.

arouse

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To stimulate feelings.
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  • *
  • *:“?My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “?incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat?: “?I prefer a farandole to a nocturne?; I'd rather have a painting than an etching?; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;.”
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , chapter=5, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.}}
  • To sexually stimulate.
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  • To wake from sleep or stupor.
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    • See also

    * arousal * aroused

    Anagrams

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    angry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
    • , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

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