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Arouses vs Carouses - What's the difference?

arouses | carouses |

As verbs the difference between arouses and carouses

is that arouses is (arouse) while carouses is (carouse).

arouses

English

Verb

(head)
  • (arouse)

    • 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;.”
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    • , 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

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    carouses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (carouse)

    • carouse

    English

    Verb

    (carous)
  • To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
    • We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.
  • To drink to excess.
    • If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian's.

    Derived terms

    * carousal * carousel * carrousel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large draught of liquor.
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • a full carouse of sack
  • * Shakespeare
    • Drink carouses to the next day's fate.
  • A drinking match; a carousal.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The early feast and late carouse .

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